2013 Provenance Fortitude

The 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Fortitude is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. This is the debut of this small cuvée of 221 cases, sourced from their favorite vineyard sites and micro-climates. It was aged 22 months in 100% new French oak and is a backward, rather closed and formidable Cabernet Sauvignon that probably has quite an upside to it, but at present it is tight and forebodingly primordial. Inky purple-colored and dense, blackcurrant and black cherry fruit as well as some graphite and spice are present, but the wine shuts down in the mouth, although it is clearly full-bodied, powerful, deep and capable of 30 or more years of cellaring. This wine is for the very patient.