Cakebread 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon, Benchland Select, Napa Valley

Description

This blend of grapes comes from the benchlands of Cakebread’s vineyards in Oakville and Rutherford-including Hill Ranch, which surrounds the Rutherford home of Jack and Dolores Cakebread. Benchlands are the narrow regions that mark the transition from a valley’s floor to steeper mountain slopes. This geographic position offers distinctive soil profiles for good root development, as well as mountain shade that protects grapes from extreme conditions, allowing them to ripen slowly and steadily. 100% Cabernet Sauvignon aged 22 months in French oak barrels, 60% new.Jeb Dunnuck scored this wine 94 points saying The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Benchland Select is another gem, offering lots of cassis and darker cherry fruits as well as notes of lead pencil and crushed stone. Flawlessly balanced, medium to full-bodied, and as elegant and seamless as they come, it’s already impossible to resist (as are most 2019s) but I’ve no doubt this will evolve for 15-20 years in cold cellars.James Suckling…