Beringer’s Steinhauer Ranch, renamed in 2003 to honor the winery’s long-time vineyard manager, Bob Steinhauer, lies just northeast of the town of Angwin on Howell Mountain, at about 1800 feet elevation. Its soil is volcanic with a richly red color and the texture is friable and loose. When Beringer first planted the vineyard, Ed quickly recognized the distinctive character of the grapes, selecting its Cabernet as a regular part of the Private Reserve blend beginning in the 1993 vintage. The Steinhauer Ranch Cabernet is a graceful powerhouse featuring saturated colors, robust tannins, unctuous black fruit flavors with hints of brown spice, lavender, mint and minerality.
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"Loamy, earthy flavors are rich and dense, yet the earth and cedar flavors dominate the dried currant and earthen floor notes. Intense, persistent finish. Best from 2008 through 2013. 480 cases made. –JL" -Rated 88, Wine Spectator
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"This single-vineyard wine is only available at the winery and emerges from the component parts utilized in the Private Reserve blend.
I thought the 2002 Steinhauer Cabernet Sauvignon revealed impressive minerality along with white flowers, and serious density, structure, and delineation. It’s always a fascinating education to taste through these component parts, but the resulting blend that Ed Sbragia puts together, the extraordinary Private Reserve, is one of the great Cabernet Sauvignons of California and he has fashioned a succession of beauties since 1991. In fact, there are two gorgeous ones in the market, the profound 2001 and the flamboyant, exotic 2002.
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"These single-vineyard Beringer Cabs continue to be among the most tannic in California. They are largely undrinkable even at four-plus years, but this has got to be by design. The fruit here is enormous, gargantuan, and the balance is impeccable. There’s no reason the wine shouldn’t blossom by 2008, and hold for another 10 years. — S.H. (9/1/2006)" -Rated 92, Wine Enthusiast
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