Attractive, concentrated nose, polished and modern, cassis and mocha. Weighty, dense, flavourful palate, intense fruit backed by integrated velvety tannins. Long and quite delicious.

This is a good, young Oakville Cabernet, showing the firm tannins and black currant and cassis flavors you get from this splendid part of Napa Valley. Too young to appreciate now, but give it three or four years to begin to come around, and it should develop through 2015.——S.H.(9/1/2009)—— 92