Cabernet Sauvignon
2019 Eisele Vineyard - Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Altagracia
There’s purity and focus to this wine with blackberry, blackcurrant and spices, such as nutmeg. Ink pot, bark and asphalt, too. So long and polished. Chewy tannins. Hints of stone and ash. 88% cabernet sauvignon. 7% cabernet franc and 5% petit verdot. Giv...
2016 EMH Vineyards - Cabernet Sauvignon Black Cat Napa
EMH's vineyard is situated on the valley floor near Pickett Road in Calistoga, just east of the Silverado Trail. Pocketed by the Palisades Mountains to the north and Diamond Mountain to the south, the tiny vineyard of just under an acre produces outstandi...
2022 Escudo Rojo (Rothschild) - Cabernet Sauvignon Valle de Colchagua Reserva
A cabernet with blackcurrants, mint, crushed stone and pure graphite. Medium-bodied with layers of juicy tannins that are very finely layered. Extremely long and flavorful. Shows brightness and focus. Drink or hold.
2019 Favia - Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
Another standout in this range, the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville is a huge, potent wine. Bright acids and veins of tannin confer power to this brooding, sumptuous Cabernet from Oakville Ranch. Dark red purplish fruit, rose petal, spice, cedar and c...
2019 Favia - Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Coombsville is a blend mostly from Meteor. A stunning wine, the 2019 possesses off the charts richness and tremendous depth that just builds with time in the glass. Inky dark fruit, plum, spice, licorice, menthol and crushed...
2021 Force & Grace - Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
Fruit sources from the cool climates of Southern Napa contribute lifted herbal notes and violets, balanced by generous, warm dark berry fruit from up-valley sources. Medium to full-bodied, juicy blackberry and cherry woven around tobacco notes with fine-g...
2021 Force & Grace - Cabernet Sauvignon Paso Robles
A really lovely, restrained effort from Paso Robles by Jean Hoefliger. Not to say the wine isn't powerful, full-bodied, or richly layered with a tapestry of inky dark black and blue fruit. It is all that, but immense structure and building tannins also cr...
2021 Force & Grace - Cabernet Sauvignon Rutherford
Alluring dusty iron-like minerals intermix with black and red cherries, red currants, candied cinnamon and Herbs de Provence notes. Medium to full-bodied red currants, candied cinnamon, with intense long, refined, and almost powdery tannins, with a deep p...
2021 Force & Grace - Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville
A wonderful compact and tightly knit Cabernet from the Oakville appellation with characteristic crushed stone minerals, rose petals, chocolate, pure blackberry fruit, black currants and liquorice. Full-bodied and layered with silky tannins and tangy acidi...
2018 Freemark Abbey - Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Sycamore Vineyard
The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Sycamore Vineyards comes from a site (across from Staglin on Bella Oaks) that is still owned by one of the winery's original partners. Delicate California garrigue notes of mountain scrub and bay leaf frame dark cassis fruit, j...
2019 Gallica - Cabernet Sauvignon Napa
The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon is shaping up be another jewel of a wine from Rosemary Cakebread. Ample and explosive, the Cabernet shows all of the natural richness of the vintage in spades. Whereas the 2018 is bright and somewhat reticent, the 2019 is ver...
