2009 Cabernet a Great Wine in Fredric Koeppel’s look back at 2020

Fredric Koeppel included the 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon in his review of his 50 Great Wines of 2020 on January 7, 2021.

This annual post looks back at all the wines I wrote about in the previous year and singles out 50 that I thought were great wines. “Great” doesn’t necessarily imply the most profound, though several of these are as profound as wine gets; nor does it necessarily mean that these are the world’s famed wines intended for laying down in cellars for long aging. I don’t usually encounter such wines anyway. By “great,” I mean wines that delighted me, that made an impression that wasn’t just sensual but emotional, that evinced a sense of craft and thoughtfulness, ingenuity and simplicity. Above all, I mean wines that embody a feeling of dedication to a vineyard or a region, of devotion to the grape or grapes involved, of a willingness to allow the grapes to determine their own destiny, with a little help in the vineyard and the winery.

Hawk and Horse Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon 2009, Red Hills, Lake County. Exceptional.

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