2014 Cabernet Sauvignon The Beast

The appropriately named 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon The Beast tends to come from the best barrels of all the different vineyard holdings of the Del Dotto family. It is dominated by their St. Helena holdings, and they produce about 550 cases of this ball-to-the-walls, pedal-to-the-metal style of Cabernet Sauvignon. It spends 24 months in 100% new oak, but the oak rarely shows through, given the extraordinary richness of fruit, density and high extract the wine possesses. In nearly every sense, it is a true “beast,” but pure, rich, concentrated, and capable of lasting 25-30 or more years.