Sleeper Cabernet Sauvignon Vine Cliff Oakville Bench Reserve Napa Valley 2021

“A 100% Cabernet Sauvignon sourced from the Vine Cliff Estate in Oakville is a Reserve selection of the best barrels. At just one point of alcohol higher than the non-reserve (14.4%), it is quite a step up in concentration, power, and structural integrity. It's a delicious red wine now, offering expressive blackberry fruit, candied violets, earth, sandalwood, and sweet oak, nuanced by wild herbs and mocha—full-bodied with satiny textured sweet blackberry fruit, cedar-kissed fine-grained tannins and a mineral-rich finish. Great cellar potential.”