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90+ POINTS
The outstanding 2006 Dancing Bear Ranch Proprietary Red (79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot, and 4% Cabernet Franc) is a medium-bodied, elegant Cabernet-based wine with a dense purple color as well as a sweet bouquet of loamy soil, crushed rock, black currant, plum, licorice, and a hint of subtle, well-integrated new oak. Approachable now, this 2006 promises to evolve for 12-15+ years. Drink: 2009 - 2024. - Wine Advocate #186, December 2009 |
Kansas City, Missouri
The Jefferson Cup |
2009 Jefferson Cup Winner - 2006 Dancing Bear Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon Invitational has celebrated its tenth year as the only competition that honors the best of the best among wineries from all of America’s wine regions. Each year we select great wines from across America; the 2009 competition included wines from twenty-three states. At the end of the second day of this year's tasting, November 20th, wines from SIX different states had captured top honors. Just as the event’s namesake would have it, democracy reigned at this year’s Jefferson Cup Wine Competition. - The Jefferson Cup Invitational Wine Competition November, 2009 |
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San Diego Wine Competition - Silver Award The 2006 Dancing Bear Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon features aromas of ripe black fruits, forest-floor spice, and rich fig and chocolate tones. On the beautifully structured palate, the wine delivers intensely concentrated blackberry, blackcurrant, wild cherry and ripe fig flavors balanced by firm acidity and round, silky tannins. Built for aging and with a deep core of fruit that unfolds in a lengthy, spice-and-mineral tinged finish, this dramatic mountain red makes compelling drinking now, yet its tight-knit structure argues for another 7-10 years of bottle age. |
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Our lovely 2006 Dancing Bear Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon from Howell Mountain has been awarded the silver medal by the judges of the 2010 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. |
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92 POINTS The 2005 Dancing Bear Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon offers wonderful harmony, finesse and balance, with rich, ripe, supple tiers of spice, currant, black cherry and plummy Cabernet fruit that's pure, focused and long on the finish. Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc. Drink now through 2015. - July 14, 2008 |
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San Diego Wine Competition
- Gold Sweepstakes Award The 2009 Annual San Diego International Wine Competition has awarded our 2005 Dancing Bear Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon a Gold Sweepstakes award. Wine writer Robert Whitley has made some nice comments in his blog that you can view by clicking here. |
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95 POINTS The 2005 Dancing Bear Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon is very dense and darkly pigmented, with exceptionally expressive aromatics and deep flavors, this is a big-time Cabernet that shows its potency at every turn. What is most impressive about it, however, is how gracefully all that power is expressed, and how seamlessly all of the component aromas and flavors are integrated with one another. The fruit notes of blackberries and black currents are very intense and very persistent on the palate, and the accent notes of vanilla, smoke and spices make this as enduringly interesting to taste as it is impressive. Awarded a gold medal in the San Diego International Wine Competition. - Michael Franz Apr 7, 2009 |
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The judges have give the 2005 Dancing Bear Cabernet Sauvignon, Howell Mountain a Gold medal! The 2009 professional wine judging took place at the Cloverdale Citrus Fair during the week of January 5, 2009. Professional wine judges representing trade, education, media, retail, and restaurants throughout the United States evaluated a record 4,736 wines entered by wineries from across the country. |
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Silver Award The Denver International Wine Competition just completed its 4th year this past September. Our 2005 Dancing Bear Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon was awarded a silver medal. This competition is the largest professionally run double-blind wine competition in the Rocky Mountain Region. The competition culminates with a three day festival Oct. 28 - Nov 1, 2008. For details and tickets to this festival, please see the website at www.denverwinecomp.com |
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Silver Medal - 2005 Dancing Bear Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon |
