![]() ![]() At more than six years of age, this is really starting to resolve nicely, and promises to keep on deepening for the next 20 years. The ripe, rich nose here is more exuberantly spiced than the 2018: Allspice, star anise, and clove dust brambly berry aromas and set the stage for a palate layered with blackberries, cherries and cherry pits, woodsy spices, cigar tobacco, and a hint of brown sugar. Enjoy this one now with air, or lay it down for the next 30 years. The long, mineral-flecked finish is ever-so-subtly lifted with the suggestion of candied violets. ![]() Cabernet Sauvignon 2018Īll of the generosity and grace I’ve come to expect of this spectacular vintage is on display here, with cassis and crushed blueberry aromas joined by a subtly floral lift before rich, energetic flavors of cassis, blueberries, vanilla, caramel, cedar, and cafe mocha. over the years, but considering these half-dozen wines side by side threw everything that makes it so extraordinary into shimmeringly sharp relief. I had been fortunate enough to enjoy a glass or three of older S.L.V. In the case of this particular wine-certainly a hero in the American wine firmament-tasting through these incredible vintages had the opposite effect: If anything. There’s an old cliché that says you should never meet your heroes, because disappointment often ensues. Cabernet Sauvignon, across vintages, to be appealing in their youth and have the ability to age with grace. In the case of this wine, experiencing these specific vintages accomplished both with exuberance and profundity. There are countless benefits to tasting through multiple decades of a single wine, not least of which is the ability to understand how a particular vineyard site expresses itself over the years and through all kinds of vintage conditions, as well as how the guiding philosophy of a particular producer does or does not change over the years and decades. last autumn, it was an opportunity to not just savor some fantastic wines, but also to contextualize them each in relation to one another, and to their neighbors. When I personally had the opportunity to taste through a vertical of S.L.V. ![]()
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