2021 LPV Cabernet Sauvignon
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Dense, creamy and thoroughly fruit-driven, this lets a range of plum sauce, fresh mulberry and boysenberry, and blackberry reduction notes cruise through alongside melted licorice and ganache accents. The fruit display is almost enough to make you miss its long graphite spine and subtle hints of warm paving stone and alder through the finish. All that, and this drapes beautifully.
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Joe Czerwinski, Wine Advocate
Jeb Dunnuck
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Open, expansive aromas of dried plums, blackberries and dark chocolate lead to concentrated, opulent black cherries, blueberries and espresso on the palate. This wine comes from the St. Helena district and combines sunny red fruit, minerals and chaparral with firm tannins and good acidity to balance the full body and creamy richness. Best from 2030.
The 2021 vintage release of LPV Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is the last year Schrader Cellars will source grapes from this iconic, rocky Napa Valley site. A robust red, the 15.4% alcohol level is hardly evident because of the wine's impeccable balance on the palate. It boasts a beautiful mineral intensity that lifts out of the glass, tinged with smoky wild herbs and black currant fruits. The medium to full-bodied palate has natural elegance in its super-fine-grained cocoa-nib tannins. It is counterbalanced by an attractive layer of ironstone minerality and entirely supported by a generous backbone of racy acidity. The finish is extravagantly long, fueled by refreshing acid tension and a mineral edge. Succulent and well-built, it is a Cabernet for the ages. Winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown has crafted a masterpiece, and it's a beautiful wine for this label's swan song from such an underrated site.
Consistently sourced from C block (planted to clone 337), Schrader's 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard LPV features scents of crushed stone, mocha, plum and cassis, plus some peppery spice accents. It's full-bodied and concentrated, a bit creamy and supple across the mid-palate, then finishes long and tannic (but ripe). Classic stuff, it's maybe a bit less exotic than some previous vintages.
About the producer
Schrader Cellars is one of Napa’s cult names. It focuses on pairing specific clones with the perfect site to produce the ultimate expression of Napa Cabernet. The results regularly receive the very highest scores from critics, with 19 100-point scores from the Wine Advocate to date.