Spottswoode Cabernet Sauvignon 2002

Professional Ratings

• 100 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  This wine is going from strength to strength since I first tasted it prior to bottling. Now a perfect wine, the incredible perfume of blueberries, black raspberries and cassis, along with white flowers and camphor is extraordinarily fragrant and intense. That is easily matched by the magnificent full-bodied richness and compellingly layered mouthfeel of this wine that is rich, full-bodied and a still youthful vintage that remains capable of another 25-30 years of cellaring. This is a dramatic vintage for Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.
• 94 Decanter
  More sumptuous and flamboyant than the classical 2001, the 2002 Spottswoode displays a deep-pitched, sweet, almost candied nose of ripe black fruit, tar, liquorice and a framing of creamy oak vanillin. On the palate the wine is supple and polished, with largely melted tannins and an expansive texture.
• 92 Wine Enthusiast
  The estate is in St. Helena. The wine is dry, tannic and too young, an obvious cellar candidate. Those tannins mask the underlying core of black cherry, black currant and cocoa fruit. This is a lovely, fine Cabernet, rich and supple.
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