1996 USA Wine Over $100

Cain Vineyards and Winery is located in Spring Mountain and was created following the purchase in 1980 by Jerry and Joyce Cain of 550 acres that had formerly belonged to the McCormick Ranch. The initial plantings of vines resulted... Read More

The saturated purple-colored 1996 Cabernet Sauvignon Eisele Vineyard offers an attractive nose of black fruits intermixed with toast minerals subtle tar and wood smoke. Full-bodied with impressive purity a multi-layered mid-palate... Read More

The 1996 Cabernet Sauvignon displays an impressively saturated ruby/purple color and a tight but promising bouquet of licorice black currants and toasty oak. There is more tannin but it is not intrusive. Fleshy with fine purity... Read More

The opaque purple-colored 1996 Harlan Estate reveals extraordinary intensity a spicy black currant tobacco cedar and fruit cake-scented bouquet full body a texture oozing with glycerin and concentrated fruit and moderate tannin... Read More

Smooth ripe rich and polished with a wonderful array of juicy cherry currant plum anise herb mineral and spice flavors all wonderfully orchestrated. Finishes with supple tannins and pretty oak shadings. Best from 2001 through... Read More

Firm tightly wound and austere with a compact band of earth mineral currant sage tea and cherry. Turns tannic and concentrated on the finish where the flavors sail on. Best from 2002 through 2010. 120 cases made. Published on... Read More