| Region | |
|---|---|
| Subregion | U.S.A. > California > Napa Valley |
| Colour | Red |
| Type | Still |
Phenomenal aromas of dried flowers, pine nuts, bark, wet earth and currants. Boysenberries, too. Changes all the time. Peppermint tea, blue fruit and crushed stones. Full body with integrated and chewy tannins. Yet, so tight and refined. Shows a linear line through the center. An old-vine cab that needs two or three years to come together.
The new release of Cathy Corison’s Kronos Vineyard cabernet sauvignon is always one
of the great harbingers of spring, and the new 2015 vintage of this outstanding bottling is
exceptional in quality. The wine is nicely cool in 2015, coming in at a refined 13.2 percent octane and the wine offers up its customary precision and youthful aromatic beauty in its constellation of black cherries, sweet cassis, cigar wrapper, Rutherford Dust, incipient notes of allspice, a superb base of soil and a discreet framing of new oak. On the palate the wine is deep, pure and seamlessly balanced, with its full-bodied format harboring ripe tannins, a great mid-palate core, lovely mineral drive and a very long, poised and focused finish. There is nothing flashy here, but this is emphatically a great, great bottle of cabernet in the making that is built for the long haul and it will be criminal to open it before it has had a minimum of a decade of hibernation in the cellar. In the fullness of time, this seems likely to be one of Cathy’s greatest vintages of Kronos! 2030-2080+.
Deep ruby in colour. Sweet blackcurrant, black cherry and savoury, toasted spices on the nose. Very refined on the palate, with super-sweet tannins for a velveteen texture and pure driven cassis at the core. Great intensity builds through the mid palate but this remains ethereal and elegant throughout with fresh acidity and moderate alcohol. Great drive and length on the finish. Subtle but superb, with the best yet to come. 2022 - 2040
