Compass Bridge Cabernet Sauvignon (Sonoma) 2023

 

Deep rich aubergine hue with bold aromas of dark rich blackberry, cola.

Palate--So-so first impression with nice fruit, angular, lacking depth and richness but it was just opened and needs to breathe! Expresses with gentle tannins, fruit forward with and is mellowing out with time.

This cab is just too young to appreciate at this time.  Enology has come a LOOOONG way since the days of buying a nice Cab and laying it down for a decade because you had to...  

I thinnk I may have paid around $15 for this but not sure.  I like it for the money; raise a glass!

When wine consultant Michelle Roland came on the scene perhaps 20 years ago he revolutionized the process of making wine so they could be appreciated much quicker.  Thus was born what was called the *"Modavization" of the wine world where everything tasted pretty much the same.  That is over simplification but... This is gentle as it breaths, rather elegant and opening up quite nicely. 

In honor of the late great Robert Mondavi...