2013 Napa/Sonoma Cabernet Sauvignon

As for the 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon (87% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest Petit Verdot), 72% of the fruit hails from the Napa side of the vineyard, and 28% from the Sonoma side. It was aged 20 months in 40% new French oak. This is a gorgeous Cabernet Sauvignon from the top of Spring Mountain and probably their biggest cuvée at 5,728 cases. The wine has a terrific nose of blackberry, chocolate, licorice and cassis. Some toast is in the background, but clearly, the fruit is dominant in this full-bodied, voluptuously textured and opulent, dramatic, flamboyant Cabernet Sauvignon. Unlike most 2013s, it is open and delicious and shows no signs of closing down any time soon. Drink this hefty, fleshy wine over the next 15 or more years.

Pride's 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon is absolutely delicious. Dark cherry, mocha, plum and licorice are some of the many notes that flesh out in a voluptuous wine endowed with real depth and intensity. Plush, powerful and also inviting, the 2013 is a terrific example of the vintage. Best of all, the Cabernet won't require as much patience as some of the other higher-end 2013 Cabernet-based offerings.