C&B - Cartlidge and Browne Winery
Tasting Notes : Dense ruby/garnet in color, this wine displays classic Cabernet aromatics: cassis and black cherry fruit, espresso, cedar, graphite, and a touch of leather. Oak-aging adds attractive spice cake suggestions. Expansive on the palate, but with enough poise and fleshy character to easily carry its rich tannins, the wine’s flavors cover a spectrum of fruits, from black cherry to plum and fig.
Winemaking for the last 25 years has been directed by Paul Moser. Paul’s stylistic preferences have been shaped by his extensive tasting of the great wines of the world during his previous occupations as sommelier and wine merchant. A Stanford graduate, who studied in France, Paul spent extensive time working in wineries in Burgundy and the Loire. As a result, Cartlidge & Browne wines, while definitely Californian in fruit, have always had a distinctly “French” or “European” styling.
