Tasting Gallica: Elegant Napa Cabernet
Try a different take on Napa Cabernet...
Tina Gellie has worked for Decanter since 2008 and is the brand's Content Editor as well as Regional Editor for the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. An awarded wine writer and editor, she also won several scholarships on the way to getting her WSET Diploma, and is a freeman of The Worshipful Company of Distillers. She has worked in wine publishing since 2003, including as Deputy Editor and Acting Editor of Wine International. Before her wine career she was a newspaper journalist for broadsheets in London and Australia.
Try a different take on Napa Cabernet...
Tina Gellie reports and taste the new wine...
A delicious, bristling example of Cabernet Franc – the inaugural release – showing lively acidity allied to a concentrated, complex palate of mulberries, pomegranate, pencil lead and bay leaf...
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