Turnbull Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

Professional Ratings

• 98 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Black Label is just a little reticent at this youthful stage. With a little swirling and coaxing, it begins to reveal a staggeringly beautiful nose of warm cassis, boysenberries, black raspberries and dark chocolate, with hints of freshly cut red roses, cinnamon stick, cedar chest and pencil lead plus a waft of fragrant earth. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is super intense, featuring tightly wound layers of black fruits, minerals and baking spices, supported by a rock-solid frame of pixelated tannins and electric freshness, finishing long and fantastically fragrant. What a stunner!
  Rating: 98+
• 98 Jeb Dunnuck

  There are 47 barrels of the flagship 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Black Label, a selection from Oakville that shows the vintage style beautifully. A wonderful perfume of crème de cassis, chocolate, lead pencil, and violets gives way to a full-bodied, concentrated, expansive Cabernet with wonderful, velvety tannins, a dense, layered mid-palate, and a great finish. This broad, sexy, seamless 2018 can be drunk today with incredible pleasure, but it’s going to age like a great 1982 Bordeaux and keep for 30+ years.

• 97 Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
  COMMENTARY: The 2018 Turnbull Reserve Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon is one of Napa Valley's finest efforts. TASTING NOTES: This wine revels with aromas and flavors of wild and authentic black fruits, earth, wild herbs, and oak. Enjoy it with a grilled, well-marbled ribeye topped with diced shallots. (Tasted: June 22, 2021, San Francisco, CA)
• 95 Decanter
  A selection of the best barrels of both the Fortuna and Leopoldinda sites. A blend is not always greater than the sum of its parts, but it is the case here. The nose is floral, woodsy, rustic and laden with black fruits. A luscious, simply delicious palate ends up in a powdery, clean, quenching finish. A great example of the eastern hills of Oakville. Drinking Window 2024 - 2035
• 95 Wine Spectator
  A packed, muscular style, with dark plum, fig and blackberry compote flavors that are a ways from stretching out fully. There's a solid loamy note underscoring the fruit, while licorice root and warm stone notes thump along in the background. Riveted with tannins through the finish. Best from 2023 through 2040.
• 91 James Suckling

  This has aromas of black cherry, blackberry leaf, walnut and sandalwood. It’s medium-to full-bodied with firm, powdery tannins. Integrated fresh-fruit and wood flavors. Try from 2022.