Description
2014 HOLLYWOOD & VINE “2480” CABERNET SAUVIGNON
Tasting Notes From Winemaker, Celia’s Notes: “Great Cabernets show complexity in both aromas and flavors, and an unmistakable sense of terroir. This 100% Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon offers lovely notes of deep dark cassis, cherries baked into a toasted wheat crust, warm blackberries still on the vine. At entry, the wine shows soft, broad, silky tannins and a brightness from the natural fruit acidity, all framed in a structure that shows a touch of French oak and a firm core that suggests considerable age-worthiness.”
The Hollywood & Vine Story: What do you call it when a Hollywood actor/director wants to make wine? Hollywood & Vine! That is the story of Doug Barr, who starred in series like Designing Women, The Fall Guy, Two on the Town, etc. He purchased a home at “2480” street address in Napa, once the home of Maynard Amerine, one of the originators of Napa Valley Wines. As the story goes, Doug found a book Maynard published in the home and before long he wanted to get involved in wine – the rest Hollywood & Vine 2480 is history.
James Suckling Notes 2014 Vintage: Many will remember this vintage as the year of the earthquake, which wrecked havoc in most of Napa Valley on August 24. Besides structural and ancillary damage, some winemakers believe that the seismic trauma changed the water table, giving a thrust of water to deep rooted vines a few weeks before the harvest. This reduced the effects of the drought in 2014, so they say. I can’t say for sure whether that’s really the case, but I can say that the 2014s are sensational. Go get some. -James Suckling
