Lot 41
2018 St. Helena Cabernet Sauvignon

Dense purple in the glass, it exudes creme de cassis and boysenberry jam underscored with fruit cake, pencil lead, and smoky cinnamon spice from all the new French oak. Smooth and creamy on the palate with loads of black fruit preserves, dark chocolate-covered cherries and plush tannins that caress the palate in a long, sensuous finish. Fantastic!

Check-in tasting 6.23.21 - Heady and hedonistic, this wine will roll your eyes back in your head. Date cake and black fruit are slathered in oak at this point and weighing down the rest of the aromatic profile…focused, extracted and seamless not to mention spectacularly structured but trapped in 100% new French oak for now, give this another 4-6 months for bottle bouquet development. Use 24-hour decant.