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  • Country ranking ?

    481
  • Producer ranking ?

    23
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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Sourced from favored rows within the acclaimed C2 block of Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard, this elegant wine exudes class and refinement. It is dark violet in hue with aromas of blueberry, lavender, balsa, wet stone, vanilla and biscotti. Velvety tannins give this wine a luxurious mouthfeel that is punctuated by bright elegant flavors of boysenberry pie, mocha, pipe tobacco, salted caramel, and shale. A refined finish of black fruit, tar and we...

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Dark medium ruby. Good lift to the slightly inky aromas of blackberry, licorice, black pepper, mint and spices. Fairly dense but a bit hard-edged, with the flavors of blue and black fruits, peppery herbs, licorice, violet and bitter chocolate showing limited give. Nicely concentrated but a touch vegetal, conveying an impression of almost peppery acidity and finishing with firm-edged, slightly drying tannins and lingering notes of licorice and wet rock. This lighter-styled Cabernet is still awkward today: will it develop more sweetness and pliancy with additional bottle aging? Hobbs picked this fruit on October 19th, following a huge rainstorm on October 3 and a long period of unusually high humidity. He did heavy crop thinning, beginning in early July, in an attempt get the rest ripe, but the veraison still did not occur until late August. He ultimately got just 1.4 tons of fruit per acre (the lowest yield of all of the vintages I tasted in March), which he described as "still not completely ripe." (14.7% alcohol; 3.65 pH; 6.0 g/l acidity)

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Origin

Sebastopol, Sonoma Valley

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