Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

BlackBerry, plum, leather, hint of tobacco, tannins.

Continuing in my Napa cab education this showed up at the door for me. It is excellent winter wine. It would warm you even if chilled—at 15 % abv no doubt but the taste is coziness defined too: ripe cherries, blackberry preserves on some sort of cheese on an earthy whole whole wheat cracker. The tannins could use, say, one or two more years to fully integrate but they aren’t objectable. Holiday spices and a whiff of forest floor and a long plummy finish round it out. Take this wine to an ice skating party if such things exist in your life.

My kind of #californication 🙂 Deep and spicy (finish) with strong bitter chocolate. Mild tannins, medium acidity. Black fruits - barely palpable. But a leather, smoke maybe - they do the job. My second wine from William Hill - the first one was fantastic blend (2014).

45m decant and found this a solid value drinker. Has all that you’d expect from a Napa cab. While the components are not well balanced, the bright acid keeps you craving more.

We both really liked this one.

Incredible Napa cab!!! Perfect balance....

Thanks Dave!

Smooth and dry with great flavor

Eric had this 7 years ago

Scott had this 4 years ago