Cabernet Sauvignon is a variety whose flavor tends to dominate environmental factors, unlike the Pinot Noir, Syrah, or Mourvèdre, for example, which express environmental factors. I buy an Italian white wine from a vineyard in which the vines share space with locust trees, and one can smell the opulent perfume of their cascading white blossoms in the wine. It fills the air; it fills the wine.
