Force Majeure
Red Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon
Red Mountain, Columbia Valley, Oregon/Washington, USA
The 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Red Mountain Estate is highly expressive, wafting up with a dark and alluring blend of sage, dusty violets, crushed blackberries and spice. This is plush and supple yet energetic, with texturally deep red and black fruits that take on a crunchy sensation as saline minerals amass toward the close. It leaves balsamic spice and a bitter tinge of plum skins to slowly fade, finishing with incredible length. The 2020 is structured for the long haul. The tannin management is quite impressive here, making for a truly harmonious Cabernet from Red Mountain. (Eric Guido, Vinous, January 2024)
The 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Red Mountain Estate is highly expressive, wafting up with a dark and alluring blend of sage, dusty violets, crushed blackberries and spice. This is plush and supple yet energetic, with texturally deep red and black fruits that take on a crunchy sensation as saline minerals amass toward the close. It leaves balsamic spice and a bitter tinge of plum skins to slowly fade, finishing with incredible length. The 2020 is structured for the long haul. The tannin management is quite impressive here, making for a truly harmonious Cabernet from Red Mountain. (Eric Guido, Vinous, January 2024)
The Red Mountain Cabernet,
It stands out in a crowd of typical Cabernets, but it does shut down in about an hour, so drink it fast with some friends or hold it for quite awhile.. Jeb 97 + review as follows,
The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Red Mountain Estate is much more dense, tannic, backward wine compared to the Walla Walla Estate release. Its deep purple/plum color is followed by a masculine bouquet of crushed rocks, tobacco, iodine, and lead pencil. This carries to a full-bodied Red Mountain Cabernet with gorgeous overall balance, ripe yet building tannins, an undeniable sense of minerality, and a blockbuster finish. Possessing a liquid rock-like minerality (it seems to have been filtered through a bed of rocks), it's mostly educational at this young age and deserves 4-5 years of bottle age. It should keep for 2-3 decades in cold cellars.
The Red Mountain Cabernet,
It stands out in a crowd of typical Cabernets, but it does shut down in about an hour, so drink it fast with some friends or hold it for quite awhile.. Jeb 97 + review as follows,
The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Red Mountain Estate is much more dense, tannic, backward wine compared to the Walla Walla Estate release. Its deep purple/plum color is followed by a masculine bouquet of crushed rocks, tobacco, iodine, and lead pencil. This carries to a full-bodied Red Mountain Cabernet with gorgeous overall balance, ripe yet building tannins, an undeniable sense of minerality, and a blockbuster finish. Possessing a liquid rock-like minerality (it seems to have been filtered through a bed of rocks), it's mostly educational at this young age and deserves 4-5 years of bottle age. It should keep for 2-3 decades in cold cellars.
