2022 Del Rio Cabernet Sauvignon
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The fruit from the morning side of this steep hillside site was picked first and used for the 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Del Rio Vineyard. An inky black/red color, the wine is forward and ripe with notes of tobacco, blackcurrants, plum skin, wild herbs, pine, and violets. It’s fleshy and full, yet it maintains a mouthwatering freshness, with its richer tannins emerging on the mid-palate and finish. It’s highly floral and has notes of tea leaf on the finish. Drink 2027-2050.
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The 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Del Rio Vineyard is impressive in light of the severe Labor Day heatwave that bifurcated the vintage. “We picked the a.m. side and the p.m. side separately,” winemaker Jesse Katz says. “The afternoon side got hammered, and none of it went into this wine. This is all the a.m. side.” The remaining grapes were optically sorted, and the wine was matured for 22 months in 100% new French oak. It opens with a well of black plums, blueberries and black cherry compote, unfurling to nuances of aniseed, garrigue, chocolate and turned earth. The palate offers layer after layer of ripe fruit, spice and floral character, and its new oak is well integrated. It’s structured by velvety tannins and mouthwatering acidity and has a very long, layered finish. 340 cases were made.