Omaha Steaks, America’s Authentic Butcher, and Laithwaites, the world’s No. 1 residence supply wine service, are lately introduced the discharge of their most luxurious wine but. Chosen by a panel of consultants to be the very best purple wine to pair with steak, it’s the final bottle to serve with particular vacation meals this season and for any event value celebrating—and it’s restricted to 1,917 bottles in honor of the 12 months Omaha Steaks was based.
The Omaha Steaks 1917 Non-public Reserve® Cabernet Sauvignon was chosen by means of a rigorous tasting. On a freezing (-30°F) afternoon in January 2024, Todd Simon (Omaha Steaks fifth-generation household proprietor and Chief Steak Evangelist), Nate Rempe (Omaha Steaks CEO and President), Tony Laithwaite (founding father of Laithwaites Wine) and members of their groups gathered in Omaha, Nebraska to style a spread of uncommon wines from world wide.
The target: To search out the finest wine to pair with steak. The wines have been solely chosen by wine consultants world wide. To take away any component of bias, every wine was tasted “blind” – which means that no information concerning the wine (together with the label, bottle form, grape selection, or geographic area) have been revealed. Every member needed to fee the wines independently. Hardly anybody spoke, in an effort to not affect different panel members.
The successful wine was decided not by how good it tasted by itself, however reasonably by how nicely it enhanced the flavour of the steak. Fittingly, Omaha Steaks Non-public Reserve® steaks have been served alongside the wines after being expertly ready by Omaha Steaks’ company chef. Because the outcomes have been tallied, there was a transparent rigidity within the room as panelists realized the heavy burden put upon them (to pick out the very best wine on the earth to pair with steak). Had this ever been accomplished earlier than?
The scores have been on the doorways. Wines that didn’t make the reduce included exceedingly uncommon releases from Italy, France, and Australia. In the long run, there was one clear winner: a spectacular Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley’s legendary Oakville district.
Famend winemaker Invoice Knuttel meticulously crafted this Cabernet Sauvignon from hand-harvested fruit grown in two elite, sustainably farmed vineyards in Oakville, the well-known AVA (American Viticultural Space) in Napa Valley. He then aged the wine for 25 months in tremendous French oak barrels. Whereas scrumptious now, it’ll additionally age fantastically and is ideal in your favourite reduce of Non-public Reserve® steak.
As you’d anticipate, a wine this good is made in very small batches. In actual fact, only one,917 bottles exist, and every is individually numbered. As of this writing, it has bought out. Be sure to get on their mailing listing for the following spectacular launch.
GSN’s Remarks: An ideal wine. Fruity, chewy, deepening, darkish, brooding, fulsome, attractive, and so on… and that’s solely the nosing. The strategy on the palate is gentle, however imbued with an intense character of elegantly aged, confident Cab Sauv. It’s clear why this explicit mix was chosen because the foil for a uncommon steak. It really works in tandem with the meaty taste, the meat fats and the char of a superbly cooked Tomahawk, Ribeye or tenderloin. However, even if you’re vegan or vegetarian, you’ll respect the bottling of this California purple. Properly appointed. GSN Ranking: A+
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