Conway Family Wines Deep Sea Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Selecting a pizza wine, for sipping with Friday night pizza, I pulled from the cellar this ten year old entry level Napa Cab. Its been four days short of exactly four years since I last tasted and posted a tasting note about this label. At that time I wrote that it had been a year ago that week, that I wrote in these pages about Conway Family Wines sending me a kind note from them about my post. At that time, I had just
opened their wine for a casual weekend evening
of wine, fruit and cheese.
As I have written before in these pages, I found and obtained this wine downstate Illinois at the wine merchant Friar Tucks. I
tasted it and then went
back and bought more. Previously, I found this producer's Syrah and went back and
bought more, twice, ending up buying out their entire stock. After
buying out this Cabernet, I returned to the same retailer again later
and discovered they had
another case on the shelves which I acquired and shared with a colleague. Such it is with these wine
finds.
Based on the earlier tasting experience with this wine, we only consumed only half the bottle the first evening we
opened it and found the remainder of
the bottle when revisited the next evening was as good or even better
than it was initially. Such it is with
hearty well structured wines of a half dozen years of age. This was the
same as the notes from my earlier tasting experience, when we opened
re-opened it, it improved upon
revisiting the following day!
Here are my notes from the previous but similar tasting of this wine, earlier this year.
This has incredible QPR - quality price ratio, at its price point below $20. The wine producer lists it at $39.
As with earlier tastings, reported on earlier, this was dark garnet colored, medium to full bodied, full fruit forward black berry and black cherry fruits with a layer of smoke, spice and hints of graphite and tea, turning to tones of sweet mocha, almost caramel like, with nice balance and smooth polished tannin finish.
RM 90 points.
https://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=1517213
http://www.conwayfamilywines.com
http://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2015/12/conway-family-wines-deep-sea-napa.html
https://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2016/10/conway-wines-deep-sea-cabernet-sauvignon.html