Lot 300
2019 Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon (Double Gold)

Opaque in the glass but not over-extracted. The bouquet is gorgeous, fantastically fresh and redolent with sage and violets, cassis, blackberry, blackcurrant and red rock surrounded by well-integrated, toasty french oak. Everything is beautifully delineated, perfectly ripe and elegantly complex - ebullient but never over the top jammy. On the palate, robust and juicy on entry with plush, chewy tannins perfectly balanced with succulent, ripe black and red fruits riding a tufa-driven minerality carrying this wine to an incredible finish that echoes on your palate for a good minute+.  Polished, ethereal and punchy with tremendous verve throughout, this is a wonderful expression of Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon.