Fragrant aromas of sweet, ripe blackcurrant, wet wool, vanilla and blackberry pie. Suave, slee, eleagant and restrained with cool, crunchy black fruit and firm tannins. It has Napa's generosity of fruit without being blowsy. Drink 2013. Alc: 14.7%. (16.63 points)

Give this vital young Cab a good five years to come around. Right now it’s hard in tannins. But it’s exceptionally ripe in blackberry and cherry fruit, with a liqueur richness of creme de cassis, and it should have no trouble in the cellar. ——S.H.(10/1/2011)—— 92