2021 Doubleback Cabernet Sauvignon
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The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon blends the power and intensity of the vintage with DoubleBack’s style of undeniable elegance. It wafts up with an enticingly classic bouquet of crushed violets and plums complemented by hints of graphite, stone dust and lavender. It’s silky smooth, seamless and supple, with depths of ripe red and black fruits that swirl across a radiant stream of cooling acidity. The 2021 finishes with fantastic length. Structured through the perfumed finale, it boasts sweet tannins and a tinge of licorice that lingers on and on. This is beautifully executed and built for the cellar.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Eric Guido, Vinous
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Looking at the two Cabernet Sauvignon releases from Doubleback, the 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon is 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Malbec, and the rest Merlot and Petit Verdot (from the McQueen, Lefore, and Schafer vineyards) that was brought up in 74% new French oak, with 6% in concrete. Its deep purple hue is followed by a terrific perfume of ripe plums, cassis, spicy oak, and lead pencil shaving-like notes, and it picks up some floral and violet notes with time in the glass. Medium to full-bodied, nicely balanced, and textured, with ample tannins, it's going to benefit from just 3-4 years of bottle age and, I suspect, have two decades of overall longevity.