2018 Favia Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville
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The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville—pure Cabernet from Oakville Ranch—features obvious cassis fruit laced through with slightly herbal shadings, like sage and bay leaf. It's medium to full-bodied, structured, firmly tannic but ripe, rich and long, with a velvety finish that hints of black tea and mocha.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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Next up, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville is a slightly broader, more expansive wine with textbook notes of crème de cassis, tobacco leaf, Asian spices, loamy soil, camphor, and chocolate. Offering full-bodied richness, a beautiful weightlessness on the palate, and building tannins, this is another gorgeous, seamless, singular wine from this estate that will benefit from short-term cellaring and evolve for 20-25 years or more.
The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville captures the essence of the year in its fresh, vibrant personality. Sweet red cherry jam, mocha, spice and rose petal all grace this mid-weight, refined Cabernet Sauvignon. The 2018 is a terrific example of how much the style here has shifted towards an approach that favors freshness.
The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville is deep, fleshy and powerful with notes of black cherry, lavender, chocolate, spice and mint that build in the glass. Outrageously beautiful and resonant, the 2018 captures all the magic of Oakville Ranch (where this fruit is sourced), specifically that interplay of richness and bright acids that is the single strongest signature of this site.
About the producer
Favia is the personal project of cult winemaker Andy Erickson and leading viticulturalist and winemaker Annie Favia. Working in Coombsville and Oakville, they craft single-site, elegant expressions of top Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc that are some of the valley’s highest-rated.