Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, Cask 23 other_regions_australia

Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, Cask 23 other_regions_australiaThe 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Cask 23 reveals more oak on the nose, but is a much deeper, richer, fuller wine than the S. L. V. Dense ruby purple to the rim, beautiful blackberry and cassis fruit, cedar wood, toast and earth jump from the glass. Full bodied and layered, but with nothing out of balance, this is probably the strongest Cask 23 since the glory years of the mid 80s. Look for this wine to drink well young, yet age effortlessly for 25 years.

Yellow stone fruits

Catena is almost equivalent to Argentine quality wine

the 2007 Proprietary Red Wine still possesses a youthful deep garnet-purple color and gives up a truly gorgeous nose of crème de cassis

menthol and cigar box flavors

It reveals a masculine

(66% whole clusters)

Les Chaliots and Les Brûlées plus a few others too small to mention)

dry personalities

(from an enormous 4

dusty and gorgeously long finish that is just a bit more structured

(planted with vines of 20+ and 65+ years of age that sit directly above Musigny)

plenty of tertiary black fruit with a liberal sprinkling of cracked black pepper on the slightly raw finish