California: A region on a roll
The California-Cabernet connection is a long and deeply rooted one, yet it’s not one that’s resistant to change. As our recent blind tasting revealed, a trend towards stylistic restraint is generating ripe yet balanced expressions at all price points, writes Patrick Schmitt MW
Since then, the California-Cabernet combination has heightened and stylistically evolved, with changes influenced in particular by replanting on rootstocks in the 80s, and the advent of the world’s most powerful wine critic in the same decade: Robert Parker.
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