2017 Clos du Val - Cabernet Sauvignon Hirondelle Vineyard
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The classic 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate (89% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot, and the rest Cabernet Franc) offers a solid bouquet of blue fruits, crushed violets, chocolate, and leafy herbs. It's a rich, chewy, mouthfilling effort that's nicely balanced and loaded with fruit. In Napa Valley, it's certainly a value and I suspect will keep for 10-15 years.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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The 2017 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon is plush, dark and enveloping. Black cherry, plum, chocolate, leather, licorice and cloves give the 2017 a decidedly dark, somber profile. I would give the 2017 a year or two in bottle at least, as it needs time to shed some of its considerable baby fat. This is an especially rich, concentrated style.
Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate offers baked berries, stewed cherries and plums on the nose with notions of herbs and tobacco. The palate is medium-bodied, firm, chewy and hollow.
The 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Hirondelle Vineyard offers tremendous density and unctuousness. Generous, inky fruit and incisive tannins are going to need quite a bit of time to fully come together. Even so, the 2017 Hirondelle is promising,