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2006 Highlands Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

100% Napa Valley - Cabernet Sauvignon

This exceptional wine has luxuriant varietal character with quality French oak enchantment. This California style Cabernet Sauvignon pairs well with beef roasts, steak, pate, duck, goose, spicy poultry dark meat, sausage. Strong cheeses like cheddar and blue cheese are a delight with this wine.
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» Wine Enthusiast: "This is a really impressive Cabernet Sauvignon. Shows a classic Napa profile, with brilliant balance, including near-perfect tannins. Pushes the cassis flavors to the edge of the envelope, without going over the top. Gets better as it warms up in the glass. — 93"

Wine Philosophy: Highlands wines confirm that quality wine making starts in the vineyard. Every vintage presents unique opportunities to explore and express the best the fruit and terroir has to offer. To maximize vintage opportunities Highlands focuses on small lot production using inspired and uncompromised winemaking techniques. Bottling wines of intelligent and privileged character demonstrates our commitment to excellence. We at Highlands appreciate your participation in our discriminating enological experience of hand crafted wines.

Food Parings: This exceptional wine has luxuriant varietal character with quality French oak enchantment. This California style Cabernet Sauvignon pairs well with beef roasts, steak, pate, duck, goose, spicy poultry dark meat, sausage. Strong cheeses like cheddar and blue cheese are a delight with this wine.

Vintage Notes: 2006 - The first day of 2006 brought floods to the Napa Valley and was followed by a long wet winter, modest rains during flowering, a summer with a record setting heat wave, and early rains at harvest. The growing season started nearly 3 weeks late but favorable temperatures through April and May produced rapid vine development with flowering only marginally late. Pollination “shatter” from the late May rain had limited impact. The mild summer was interrupted by a July record setting 10-day heat wave. The winter soaked soils produced an abundant leaf canopy that helped to protect the grapes from heat wave sunburn. Fortunately only limited crop damage required thinning. Harvest started a couple of weeks late with dry moderate temperatures favoring gradual and even ripening. Rain in the first week of October delayed harvest but was followed by beneficial hang time in mild and dry temperatures bringing sugars and acids in good balance. Fortuitous timings and clusters of small berries has allowed Highlands to produce exception wines from the dramatic 2006 vintage.

Winemaker Notes: A wine of providence pulled from a vintage with fruit that conspired to make a winemaker’s dream come true.

Tasting Notes: A wine with a luxuriant Cabernet nose and a high flavor impact speaks to the mouth of plums, blackberries and black currants, smooth and balanced and superior oak characters. A satisfying finish gladdens a special occasion or dining experience.

Cellaring: Enjoy the wine now or put it down to be pleasured over the decades ahead.

Wine Specs

Vintage 2006

Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon

Appellation Napa Valley

Acid .62

PH 3.60

Aging 18 months in 33% new French Oak

Alcohol % 15.0

Wine Spectator 90

Wine Enthusiast 93

Wine Profile

Production 1017 Cases

Other Notes Fermentation: Small Stainless steel tanks
Blend Varietals: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
Blend Appellation: 100% Napa Valley

Product Reviews

stephen
(Oct 13, 2010 at 2:49 AM)

I recieved a bottle for my 60th birthday. Thought it was excellent. it is evrything you said it would be. Going to buy a couple more bottles for the future.

Per Svalborn
(Apr 11, 2011 at 7:27 PM)

Highlands 2008 Cabernet sauvignon: Excellent maturity, full bodied with that earthy taste that probably comes from the oak aging...

Texas
(May 19, 2011 at 5:14 AM)

The 08 Cabernet has all of smoothness,full body, taste and finish one would expect in, say, Silver Oak. Tried two bottles through Lot 18, then a case. It's terrific.

John
(Feb 4, 2012 at 6:36 PM)

I purchases this off of Lot18. It was as described. Very nice Cab especially for the pricing on Lot18. It is smooth, full body with medium tanins. Much better than Silver Oak Alexander Valley in my opinion.

Cynthia
(Feb 27, 2013 at 5:21 PM)

Great- a real find