2014 Carter Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard The Grand Daddy
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The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard The Grand Daddy has a pure, precise, seamless style as well as beautiful notes of crème de cassis, liquid violets, darker currants, and leafy herbs. It doesn't quite have the density of the O. G. or Grand Daddy, but it’s as seamless, pure, and balanced as they come.
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The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer to Kalon The Grand Daddy is a 202-case cuvée from a block in the Beckstoffer Vineyard that is the last that Carter harvests. Black fruits galore, including blackberry, cassis, blueberry, a full-bodied nose with charcoal embers, camphor and subtle smoke, are followed by a gorgeously proportioned full-bodied wine with fabulous purity and flawless integration of acidity, wood and tannin. Drink it over the next 20+ years.
Carter's 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard The Grand Daddy is powerful, intense but also light on its feet for such a big wine. Savory herbs, tobacco, menthol, licorice and dried flowers are some of the many aromas and flavors that open up in the glass. The Grand Daddy is not a big wine by Napa Valley standards. Instead, what comes through is a distinctly silky and understated expression of To Kalon.