2014 Realm Cellars, Farella Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley 1x750ml

Robert Parker 96

Their 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Farella Vineyard (425 cases), is made from a vineyard planted in red volcanic tufa soils. The irony is that just about everybody that buys fruit from this vineyard makes better wine than the owner. This is a terrific, almost Bordeaux-inspired wine with loads of minerality and structure, but intense chocolaty, charcoal notes intermixed with blackcurrant, licorice and forest floor. It is dense, full-bodied, stunningly rich and can be drunk now or cellared for another two decades. [Robert M. Parker, Jr., 28/09/2017]

Anticipated maturity: 2016-2036