TASTING NOTES:
The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon T6 Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard is more structured and savory, with an incredibly bloody, iron-like character that gives way to awesome notes of incense, spice, tobacco leaf, and black cherry and cassis fruits. Aged 20 months in 95% new oak, this dense, meaty, blockbuster effort needs to be forgotten for at least 5-6 years, at which point it should cruise for 25-30 years. It’s a killer bottle of wine.
-Jeb Dunnuck, 99 pts.
Fascinating aromas of blackberries, orange peel and walnuts follow through to a medium to full body, dark fruit and hints of dried and fresh herbs. Dark chocolate, too. Firm tannins. Linear and great length. Drink in 2022.
-James Suckling, 98 pts.
The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon GIII is deep garnet-purple in color with boisterous black fruits notes of crushed blackberries, warm black plums and blackcurrant cordial with touches of cedar chest, roses, tilled black soil and tar plus a waft of cloves. The palate is big, rich, full and packed with black fruit preserves and exotic spice notions with a velvety frame and a very long finish.
-Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 97 pts.
