Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon is also inky purple in color and offers a high-class bouquet of crème de cassis, vanilla bean, white flowers, blueberries and incense. It's full-bodied, deep, multi-dimensional and elegant on the palate, with fine, fine tannin and awesome purity of fruit.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Hertelendy's inky purple-black colored 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon has a lifted blackberry and cassis nose with nuances of cedar, tobacco and bouquet garni plus scents of chargrilled meat and truffles. Medium to full-bodied, with good concentration in the mouth and firm, fine-grained tannins, it's expressive and youthful with a long finish.
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Wine Enthusiast
This is a big and billowy red, offering plenty of concentration. But its soul delivers underlying elegance, the tannins polished and lengthy, complementing the dark brooding plum, cocoa powder, marshmallow and coconut that meld together seamlessly.
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Wine Spectator
Solid, offering a beam of raspberry and black currant preserves laced with anise and graphite notes. Nice focus through the finish. What you see is what you get here, but this is very well done. Drink now through 2026.
One of the most prestigious wines of the world capable of great power and grace, Napa Valley Cabernet is a leading force in the world of fine, famous, collectible red wine. Today the Napa Valley and Cabernet Sauvignon are so intrinsically linked that it is difficult to discuss one without the other. But it wasn’t until the 1970s that this marriage came to light; sudden international recognition rained upon Napa with the victory of the Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon in the 1976 Judgement of Paris.
Cabernet Sauvignon undoubtedly dominates Napa Valley today, covering half of the land under vine, commanding the highest prices per ton and earning the most critical acclaim. Cabernet Sauvignon’s structure, acidity, capacity to thrive in multiple environs and ability to express nuances of vintage make it perfect for Napa Valley where incredible soil and geographical diversity are found and the climate is perfect for grape growing. Within the Napa Valley lie many smaller sub-AVAs that express specific characteristics based on situation, slope and soil—as a perfect example, Rutherford’s famous dust or Stags Leap District's tart cherry flavors.