2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Star Vineyard
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Coming from a site in Rutherford, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Star Vineyard is beautiful, offering lots of ripe blackcurrants, toasted spices, dried violets, leather, and tobacco leaf-like aromas and flavors. These all carry to a full-bodied, beautifully balanced Cabernet Sauvignon with perfectly integrated tannins, no hard edges, and a great, great finish. It’s one of my favorites in the line-up and can be enjoyed any time over the coming 20 years or so.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate
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Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Star Vineyard opens with expressive notions of blackcurrant jelly, chocolate mint, blackberry pie and mulberries with touches of mocha, tilled soil and bay leaves. Medium to full-bodied, the palate has a rock-solid structure of firm, grainy tannins and lively freshness supporting the muscular black fruits, finishing on a persistent minty note.