2020 Corison Cabernet Sauvignon Kronos Vineyard
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Corison's 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Kronos Vineyard is more floral than the other offerings, easily marrying hints of thyme blossom with fresh cassis and a delicate touch of vanilla. It's medium to full-bodied, marginally larger in scale than even the Sunbasket bottling, but still refined, balanced and elegant, with a long, silky-textured finish.
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
Joe Czerwinski, Wine Advocate
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The 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Kronos Vineyard offers a touch more density and depth, with medium to full-bodied aromas and flavors of ripe currants, blackberries, tobacco, and leather, with a kiss of background minerality. This concentrated, layered 2020 has tons to love, and I d put it up with the best of the vintage.
Full bottle 1,439 g. Estate wine. 20 months in French oak, 50% new. 300 cases produced. Brooding, very deep, blackish crimson. Lifted aroma – on the nose it seems more vivacious than the Sunbasket. On the palate it's still a little angular, waiting to have the holes filled in. I'd cellar this rather than drink it now, though it's already impressively long. (JR)
The 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Kronos Vineyard is a powerhouse. Black cherry, mocha, incense, tobacco and gravel add to an impression of searing gravitas. Kronos is often imposing in its youth. That is certainly the case in 2020 as well, although there is also some finesse missing in the quality of the tannins. Let's see what time brings here.
About the producer
Cathy Corison is one of Napa’s leading lights – a matriarch of the region who crafts defiantly elegant Cabernet Sauvignon from her old vines on the benchland between Rutherford and St Helena. These refined, long-ageing wines are some of Napa’s most impressive.