2002 Spottswoode Cabernet Sauvignon Magnum - 100 Points
Item Number: 2001
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
2002 Spottswoode Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 1.5L Magnum 100 Points - Robert Parker.
The wines featured in the Abrams Cellar collection were specially curated by Michela Abrams in loving memory of her husband Alan J. Abrams who served as the Chairman of SI's auction Wine Committee for several years. The proceeds from tonight's wine auction will benefit a scholarship fund in Alan's name to honor his many years of service to the SI Community.
Special Instructions
In 2002 very small yields produced only about 3,000 cases at 14.7% natural alcohol and a blend of 94% Cabernet Sauvignon and 6% Cabernet Franc. This wine is going from strength to strength since I first tasted it prior to bottling. Now a perfect wine, the incredible perfume of blueberries, black raspberries and cassis, along with white flowers and camphor is extraordinarily fragrant and intense. That is easily matched by the magnificent full-bodied richness and compellingly layered mouthfeel of this wine that is rich, full-bodied and a still youthful vintage that remains capable of another 25-30 years of cellaring. This is a dramatic vintage for Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, and it is always fascinating to taste a top winery's 2001 and 2002 next to each other because they are both such great years. However, the 2002s tend to be the more flamboyant wines, and the 2001s the more structured and broodingly backward.