It was totally a pleasure to see Korbin Ming as he was pouring his wines from Korbin Kameron at my local wine shop The Fine Wine Source in Livonia, Michigan. When I first met Korbin, he was the Associate Winemaker at Korbin Kameron Winery and their Moonridge Vineyards; and now he is the Winemaker.  They are located up in the Mayacamas Mountain Range, in fact they are located above the fog line of Napa Valley, and the reason that mountain wines are so popular, is that they actually get more hours of sunlight and a longer growing season.

Korbin Kameron Cabernet Sauvignon Moon Mountain District, Sonoma County 2019 was the first of the Cabs that we tried.  Over the years, I have had the good fortune to try the Cabernet Sauvignon wines going back to 2006 and considering that the vineyard was planted in 2000, that was definitely one of the earliest issued wines.  Moon Mountain District AVA is a sub-appellation of Sonoma County, just north of the city of Sonoma and on the eastern edge of Sonoma County and is the western slopes of Mayacamas mountains between Sugarloaf Ridge and Carneros; while Mount Veeder AVA encompasses the eastern slopes.  Fermentation and Aging is done in French Oak, of which fifty percent is new, and the barrel time is eighteen months.  With a production of six-hundred-twenty-cases produced.  A deep garnet colored wine that offers notes of black fruit, figs, cassis, lavender, and some molasses.  On the palate black cherry and blackberries, cocoa, espresso and traces of leather, mingling with tight tannins, and ending with a nice finish of fruit and terroir.

Then we had the Korbin Kameron Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Mount Veeder, Napa 2015 from their Library Collection.  So far, I have been mentioning wines made on the Sonoma side, but now a wine and another vineyard is on 186-acre property on Mount Veeder in Napa. The area is famed for having a very long growing season, so the grapes can fully mature and become fully balanced.  This reserve wine was fermented and aged in pure new French Oak for eighteen months with a production of sixty cases.  This is a much bigger wine compared to the basic Cabernet Sauvignon from Moon Mountain District.  This was a deep purple colored wine that offered notes of black fruits, sage, and sous bois.  On the palate tones of red cherry to blackberry, baking spices, mellowing tannins, and ending with a long finish of fruit and slate (terroir).

The last wine of the tasting was Korbin Kameron Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Mount Veeder, Napa 2018.  This wine was fermented and aged in French Oak, of which seventy-five percent was new and it was aged for twenty months; and a production of fifty cases.  Another deep purple wine and offering notes of dark fruit, cassis, eucalyptus and sous bois.  On the palate there were tones of black cherries, blackberries, plums, cocoa, tight tannins, and a nice long finish of fruit and terroir.