This 100% Cabernet Sauvignon was harvested from the Baldacci household’s Stags Leap AVA vineyards in October 2019, and spent 24 months in 75% French new oak, and it actually exhibits. It begins off in effective type with ripe strawberry, blackberry, and darkish chocolate on the nostril, however the oak affect makes its presence felt, ultimately presenting earthier notes of graphite and tobacco leaf with a little bit of time within the glass. A well-structured palate is led by a blast of berries folding into recent vanilla bean (once more, the oak affect), well-roasted espresso, and finally extra darkish chocolate and raspberry. The tannins are mild however silky, and there’s brilliant acidity framing a lingering end settling harmoniously between notes of strawberry, cassis, and darkish cherry.
It’s a problem to touch upon how time will improve the standard of this wine: It’s already primed and able to be loved in its full splendor proper now. Nevertheless, when you can wait, you’ll have far more restraint than I’d ever care to exhibit. It is a refined expression exhibiting basic Cabernet signatures firing on all cylinders and is an absolute stunner from begin to end, and can flip heads in virtually any state of affairs the place it’s introduced.
A / $110 / baldaccivineyards.com [BUY IT NOW FROM TOTAL WINE]
2019 Baldacci Household Vineyards Stags Leap Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon
$110
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