this has so much rich earth and minerality, it's like a journey deep into a mine. it's noted the vines were planted in 1970, and the wine does have that old-vine concentration of fruit in the form of massively intense blackberries. then there's the smoky new oak, which adds such a lusciously sweet jacket of buttered toast. tannic and tight in the way of diamond mountain cabernets, this should begin to come into its own after 2016.
Spaulding Vineyard