Winemaker Notes
This 2019 bottling is 100% Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, seriously fruited with hi-tone boysenberry, cassis and café mocha. Plush and poised on the palate, the future is bright for this Mason’s Cabernet.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
Ripe and solidly built, with waves of warmed cassis, plum reduction and blackberry puree inlaid deftly with anise, violet and singed alder notes. The long, focused finish has a nice tug of earth at the end.
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Mason's is also full-bodied yet has some firmer tannins as well as lifted notes of plums, cassis, violets, and cedary spice. It’s another character-filled, balanced, satisfying 2019 I’d be happy to drink any time over the coming 10-12 years.
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James Suckling
Ripe notes of baked blueberries, cassis, walnuts, chocolate and some figs. Full-bodied, rich and chewy tannins. Plenty of ripe and dried fruit. Needs time to soften. Dry after 2023.
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.