2001 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Wine Reviews
2001 The Colorado Wine News
The Colorado Wine News April - June 2007 Volume 17, No. 1
The 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve, Napa Valley, $160, was aged for 26 months in new French oak and bottled unfined and unfiltered. It has a big, rich, ripe, inviting bouquet of sweet earth, blackberry jam, cedar, and Damson plum. Forward, rich, restrained flavors of the same plum bell pepper, and very fine, smooth, dry tannin. Everything carries through the long, broad finish. Well balanced, structured, and integrated. Very Good.
2001 Rated by Beverage Testing Institute
94 points "Exceptional"
Brilliant ruby red hue. Vanilla, black currant and dried brown herb aromas. Medium-full with excellent concentration, this has a beautiful mid-palate with layers of flavor and a lengthy finish with great persistence of fruit, lively acidity and ample oak. Quite impressive- balanced enough to enjoy now, but really made for consumption in another 7-10 years.
2001 Rated by WineReviewOnline.com
I had lost touch with the Jarvis wines for several vintages before recently tasting this bottling and the straight 2002 Cabernet, and both made me regret the lapse. This shows exceptional aromatic complexity and very impressive dimension on the palate, with lots of toasty, smoky, spicy notes working very nicely with a core of fruit recalling blackberries and black currants. Although this hardly lacks for fruit intensity, there's a certain (welcome) restraint to the character of the fruit that makes this tougher to peg as a Napa Cab than most wines from the region. 92 Michael Franz
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