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Weekend Wine Notes: Nickel & Nickel Cabernets 2010 and 2009

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Fredric Koeppel
Dec 29, 2013
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The point of wines from Nickel & Nickel is that they are all one-variety -- the cabernet sauvignons are all cabernet, the merlots all merlot and so on -- and that each bottling is from a single, designated vineyard. Most of the wines are produced in quantities of 1,200 to 1,800 cases, with a few dipping as low as a few hundred. The philosophy, of course…

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