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The June 2021 Auction: Part 3

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Auction Ends: 6/17/2021 6:00:00 PM PDT

Lot #746. Corison Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2011

Description: Consists of 1 Bottle, 0.75L
Score: 95 JG.
"Cathy Corison’s 2011 cabernet sauvignon is her twenty-fifth harvest at her own winery, and not surprisingly the queen of Napa Valley elegance has produced a stellar wine in the cooler year of 2011. The wine is a ripe, but suave 13.7 percent and wafts from the glass in a stellar constellation of red and black cherries, a fair bit of Rutherford Dust, tobacco leaf, beautiful soil tones, a hint of eucalyptus, fresh herb tones and a very refined base of new oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and very pure, a superb core of fruit, absolutely seamless balance, great focus and complexity and a very long, youthful and ripely tannic finish of impeccable focus and grip. This is a very young and refined Napa cabernet that will be spectacular in the fullness of time and is very much worthy of marking Madame Corison’s twenty-fifth anniversary at her own property. What I love about the Corison cabernets, year in and year out, is that they inevitably take me back to my formative years in the wine trade, when I bought and cellared a ton of Napa cabernets and fell in love both with the style of the region (back in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s) and with the larger wine world in general. The 2011 is one of Cathy Corison’s finest young vintages that I have had the pleasure to taste, which is saying something, considering this remarkable woman’s superb track record for classic Napa cabernets!" John Gilman, View From the Cellar, May/Jun 2017, Issue #69
Provenance: The Caille Cellar
Lot Location: Orange County
Estimate: $60

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