Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon is probably the most successful and popular of the top-quality red wine grapes. It is the primary grape of most of the top vineyards in BORDEAUX's MÉDOC and GRAVES districts.

Cabernet Sauvignon is also the basis for most of California's superb red wines.
This kind o grape is also now being grown in Chile, Australia, and eastern Europe, especially Bulgaria.

What makes this grape so popular is it's flavor, structure, complexity, and longevity. The flavor is a mix of cherry, black cherry, black currant , and raspberry.

In Bordeaux, Cabernet Sauvignon is most often blended with one or more of the following: MERLOT, CABERNET FRANC, PETIT VERDOT, or MALBEC.

In California, wines are more often made with 100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, although the trend recently has been toward some blending, as in Bordeaux.

Although the Cabernet Sauvignon grape has been grown in Italy for over 150 years, it has only recently become more popular. Cabernet Sauvignon makes the most dependable candidate for aging, more often improving into a truly great wine than any other single varietal.


Cabernet sauvignon berries are small, spherical with black, thick and very tough skin. This toughness makes the grapes fairly resistant to disease and spoilage . Its growth characteristics, along with its flavor appeal have made Cabernet Sauvignon one of the most popular red wine varieties worldwide.