My Rating 78 Points.
Price $40.
Dark ruby in color with medium intensity and a light purplish rim.
Fruity on the nose with blueberries, plums, cherries, oak, cloves, red candy, metals and white papers.
Medium-bodied and unbalanced, with high acidity.
Dry on the palate with blackberries, blueberries, plums, cherries, strawberries, currants, vanilla, oak, licorice, earth and peppercorn.
Medium finish with smooth tannins and cherries.
A Drinkable blend, but very basic and too acidic for the fruits and tannins. Better with food, though.
The winery is out of Chicago, but grapes are mostly from California.
This is their high end series going for $40 (I don’t know about that…)
13.9% alcohol by volume.
I’ve had dinner a Coopers Hawk a number of times, tasty food. I have found that their red blend (can’t recall the specifics) was more food-friendly.
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Not a fan of any Cooper Hawk wines. The Lux ,highly overrated.
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I’m with you on that…
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Acheise — Check out this https://wineculturist.wordpress.com/author/wineculturist/. It’s hot of the press by the Wine Culturist, my expert on all wines Argentine.
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Hi Robert, the wine costed about 13 dollars here so that would fit the cheaper range. It was actually a pretty good one as well. Thank you for the information.
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This wine is way too young to be drinking at the moment. It needs to sit until about 2018 to get any life about it. If you must drink it now, give it a couple hours of air in a decanter before serving. I will never be a $40.00 wine in my view but it will be a much better and classier wine in the years to come.
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Robert, did you get to try an aged wine from this series? I was wondering about ageing them.
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Not that series, but I have had some of their really high end Cab Sauv. and it was as this was overpriced, for the quality.
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I know. I would get many other $40 wines to age…
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40$ seems a lot of money for such average wine. Correct me if I’m wrong.
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Michael, I completely agree with you. But as I have seen in their restaurant, many people do buy their wines. I just think that there are many other options at that price range. Cheers
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Hey, my experience on Californian wine or lets say American wine is very little. Last month we’ve tasted a Beringer, Cab. Sauvignon from the Napa valley in our WSET course but there was little information given. Did you by chance taste anything else by them?
Cheers
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Michael, are you in the US?
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Hi, no I live in Hungary for the moment 🙂
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Michael — Beringer is a big name in California wines and their product line runs from $8.99 Cabernet to stuff that costs $1000.00 or more. It is hard to know what you tasted, but if you find stuff that costs $40 to $75 USD in a restaurant, it should be pretty good, and anything (red) vinted before 2012 should be okay.
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