 | | | Consumer Reviews
 | | ENOLOGIX's 100-POINT WINEMAKING RATINGS
Read our "consumers'" reviews of ideas and supplies being recommended or sold to California winemakers below. Reviews are comprised of both a numeric score between 50 and 100 points and written reviews by our users. No guarantee is made as to the accuracy or reliability of the information (please see our Copyright).
To post a review, click on "Add a Review for This Product".
To return to the main categories page click on "List All Categories".
| | | | |
| | | | Cabernet Sauvignon - Clone 337
Description: Scion wood Cabernet Sauvignon available through FPMS (UCD), Caldwell Viticulture, et al. IS THIS THE BEST CLONE FOR NAPA VALLEY FLAGSHIP CABERNET SAUVIGNON WINEMAKERS?
Rating: 93
Category: Viticulture (list all categories)
Manufacturer: France
Submitted By: Leo McCloskey , Winemaker
Total Reviews: 12
| |
| | |
| | | | I want to add a negative review. Clone 337 is not the end all and be all cultivar of Cabernet Sauvignon. We now have seen several hundred wines made from 337, and for some terroir results are poor for Sonoma County hillsides given the wrong rootstock and low water availability during the growing season.
| |
| | |
| | Reviewed By
prich , Viticulturalist
Review Date
07/30/04
Rating
Mixed
(top) | | This is the base clone for Napa Valley floor or mountains for our company. We use 60% 337, and 40% of 5 other clones. We use 337 with any of the rootstocks. I would be concerned with 337 and 3309, as 337 is virused.
| |
| | |
| | | | I know of an interesting case to add for the Central Coast, too. Beckmen vineyards has a very interesting Cabernet Sauvignon, better than another I like from Justin. The reason I think is that Beckmen has maybe 50% clone 337 Cabernet Sauvignon. I tasted the lots and the 337 is elegant while UCD Clone 7 is rustic.
| |
| | |
| | Reviewed By
sequoia , Winemaker
Review Date
02/20/03
Rating
Liked
(top) | | We grow and buy this clone, and like it for it's fruitiness and forwardness, and depth of flavors. It is not unidimensional as other clones can be in the Napa Valley
| |
| | |
| | Reviewed By
capia ,
Review Date
10/28/02
Rating
Mixed
(top) | | I have both Mt. Veeder and Howell mountain vineyards with this clone. I have only made wine from the Howell Montain vineyard and the results are mixed. The intensity is average or lower than other selections of Cabernet in the same location, good wine used in primary blend but not any better than others. I've tasted the Mt. Veeder wine from this clone compared to other selcetions I've made with the smae results as above.
| |
| | |
| | | | I make in both Napa and Sonoma appellations; what I see is 337 working in Sonoma and not as well in Napa on the same terrain. My conclusion is 337 reduces intensity of Cabernet Sauvignon flavor which is what I want to accomplish in Sonoma. In Napa wines are balanced already and I do not want to reduce Cabernet Sauvignon character in Valley floor vineyards.
| |
| | |
| | | | 10-20 percent slopes.
Cult wine
| |
| | |
| | Reviewed By
nicolas , Winemaker
Review Date
04/03/02
Rating
Mixed
(top) | | I am guessing we are talking about ENTAV clone 337 here. Does anybody worries that the clone tested positive for LRV type 2 in France and in the US. I believe FPMS is trying to clean up the material using micro shoot tip culture. In any event no clean stuff would be available before 2003. I know there is a lot of 337 out there that passed the ELISA test in Missouri (one of the entry point for agriculture material in the US) but it CANNOT be clean because the mother vines in France are ALL knowledgably infected. That does not bother the French but it should raise some concern here. For more info I recommend you read the Vineyard views from the UC Coop. ext. from 2/28/02.
| |
| | |
| | Reviewed By
Phil Steinschriber , Winemaker
Review Date
03/19/02
Rating
Liked
(top) | | It has a nice balnce between Enologix tannins and complex anthocyanins. Interesting it is not tannic in a site where other clones are tannic. I am considering planting more on Diamond Mountain.
| |
| | |
| | | | I am not in favor or 337 in all the locations in which it is planted. And that is because it is no better than 7 or 8 as a general solution. It is somewhere in between 7/8 and the weaker clones. In Napa Valley 337 is good for hillside vineyards, such as Howell Mountain or Pope Valley. Do not use in St. Helena and the Valley floor from Yountville to St. Helena. But that is just one persons opinion. I know of no one with single vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon bottled as a single vineyad.
| |
| | |
| | Reviewed By
gabriel , Viticulturalist
Review Date
02/06/02
Rating
Liked
(top) | | I grow clones 3, 6, and 337 in southern Oregon. I do like the flavors of 337 but feel clone 6 makes a better wine in oregon.
| |
| | |
| | Reviewed By
Larry Hyde , Viticulturalist
Review Date
02/03/02
Rating
Liked
(top) | | I like the wines I have tasted made from Clone 337. It is early ripening, so they say. The Phelps Backus is also early ripening. This is good for Carners. It is better than the Concannon Selection, which is some UCD thing, which is not good for Carners. I would like to hear others viewpoints.
| |
| | |
| |
