94 Points Wine Enthusiast
This densely flavorful, velvety-textured wine goes deep in dark chocolate, toasted oak and blackberry jam flavors for a tempting richness that makes it accessible soon, while built ideally for aging.
93 Points James Suckling
Well-structured and packed with black fruit, this concentrated wine offers pencil shaving aromas and flavors of blackberries, black cherries and toast. Firm, sandy tannins give it a nice light grip on the palate. It’s 87% cabernet sauvignon with additions of all four other Bordeaux grape varieties. Drink or hold.
91 Points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
There are fewer than 3,600 cases of the entry-level 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon, a blend of 87% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Cabernet Franc, 3% Petit Verdot and 2% each Malbec and Merlot. Sourced from across the length and breadth of the valley, it offers up scents of camphor, dark loam, black cherries and cassis. It's medium to full-bodied, richly concentrated and velvety in texture, with a lingering finish that's tinged with hints of dried herbs, mocha and nut skin.
Winemaker Notes
Our winemakers blended 87% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Cabernet Franc, 3% Petit Verdot, 2% Malbec and 2% Merlot to create this structured, ageable wine. The wine was fermented in 25% French oak, 30% new and 70% two and three-year old-barriques and 75% in stainless steel tanks followed by aging for 21 months in French oak in the same barrel composition.
Tasting Notes
NOSE: Classic fruit notes of cassis, black cherry and plum are intermixed with notes of kirsch liqueur, anise, graphite, peppercorn, baking spices and dark earth.
PALATE: Youthful, concentrated, full bodied flavors of blackberry and pomegranate join with impressions of cured meats, cedar and dark chocolate that evolve to a long powerful finish.
