Grape: Cabernet Sauvignon
95 Points Jeb Dunnuck
The 400-case 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley is all from the east side of Oakville and all varietal. It's a juicy, up-front, utterly delicious Napa Cabernet offering darker, juicy fruits, some violet and floral notes, background chocolate oak, and sweet, integrated tannins. It's 100% guaranteed to put a smile on your face any time over the coming 10-12 years.
93 Points Vinous
The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley) is fabulous. Rich, heady and explosive, the 2021 offers up an exotic mélange of ripe red/purplish fruit, rose petal, lavender, mint, spice and sweet oak. The purity of the flavors is just remarkable. Thomas Rivers Brown makes wine for a number of elite projects in Napa Valley. The straight Napa Valley Cabernet captures the essence of his style at an affordable price. It’s a jewel of a wine.
92 Points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley is largely a blend of material that for one reason or another didn't make the cut to get into a single-vineyard bottling. Sourced from several different AVAs in the Napa Valley, it's mocha, dark fruit and scented of cola, full-bodied, plush.
Winemaker Notes
This bottling has consisted of new sites, declassified barrels from single vineyard wines and vineyards that fell out of contract along the way. It's a diverse mix but the common thread is there has always been a minimum of 4 sub-AVAs represented in every edition giving a broad geographic view into the vintage as a whole.
