Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Bursting with berries and rose petals, this is a lovely, full-bodied wine from a pleasurable and cooperative vintage. Approachable, fresh and delicious on the palate, with present yet fine-grained tannins and flavors of dark chocolate and spices in the finish.
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Wine Spectator
Richly fruited, with lush plum and blackberry compote flavors, this cruises through steadily, showing flashes of warm earth, sweet bay. tobacco and licorice root. The fruit is polished, the other elements have a little growl, which creates a nice contrast throughout. Best from 2025 through 2036. 1,950 cases made.
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon offers notes of cocoa, blackcurrants, pipe tobacco, forest herbs, and crushed lavender. Aged in about 60% new oak, it’s full on the palate, with a lovely, weightless feel, a velvety and well-managed creaminess to its texture, and good length on the finish.
A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe, its best examples showing potential to age beautifully for decades. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in Bordeaux's Medoc where it is often blended with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbecand Petit Verdot. In the Napa Valley, ‘Cab’ is responsible for some of the world’s most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after “cult” wines. Somm Secret—DNA profiling in 1997 revealed that Cabernet Sauvignon was born from a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc in 17th century southwest France.
Covering the western slopes of the Mayacamas Mountains, facing the city of Sonoma, Moon Mountain District is one of Sonoma’s newest sub-appellations. Here the well-drained, red volcanic and ash soils produce hauntingly intense red wines, mainly from Zinfandel and Cabernet Sauvignon and other Bordeaux varieties.