2013 Anakota Cabernet Sauvignon Helena Montana Vineyard

The 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Helena Montana is a dark, powerful wine. Graphite, exotic spice, crème de cassis, menthol, licorice and plums are some of the notes that meld together in a powerful, jammy Cabernet Sauvignon that balances concentration, striking aromatics and a very classic sense of Knights Valley minerality. Give this sumptuous, opulent 100% Cabernet Sauvignon at least a few years in bottle and drink it over the next decade or so.

The 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Helena Montana offers chocolate, sweet black cherries, a dense purple color, great intensity and purity – a real mountain style, but with surprisingly soft tannins. It is easily a 30-year wine. The good news is that there are 520 cases of this big, boisterous, yet voluptuously textured offering from Anakota.

A huge, explosive wine, the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Helena Montana Vineyard hits the palate with a rush of pencil shavings, smoke, tobacco, incense, blackberry jam and tons of inky blue/purple fruit. This is a very typical 2013 Cabernet built on intense fruit, vibrant acidity and broad swaths of tannin. As such, readers should be prepared to give the 2013 at least a few years in the cellar once it is bottled and released. I imagine the 2013 will still be compelling at age 20, and likely beyond.