2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Sleeping Lady Vineyard
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The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Sleeping Lady Vineyard is a fruit-driven, more charming, and ready-to-drink effort than the bigger, structured, denser, yet more impressive 2013. Nevertheless, it does offer copious quantities of blackcurrant fruit, licorice, a touch of baking spices and earth. It is medium to full-bodied and best drunk over the next 12-15 years.
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Robert Parker
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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Plum, black cherry, lavender, cloves and spices are front and center in the 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon. This is a rare case where the 2014 is richer and deeper than the 2013. The tannins need time to soften, but that should not be an issue given that the wine won't be released until 2017.
About the producer

Ad Vivum is a tiny Napa project from winemaker Chris Phelps, previously of Dominus and Caymus. Created in 2007, Phelps makes one wine, exclusively from two blocks in the Sleeping Lady vineyard, the southernmost site in Yountville.