a beautiful, classy cab, marked by smoky new oak and very ripe blackberry and cassis flavors, with a streak of minerals. the vineyard is in the vaca mountains, in the valley's far east. you can taste the sunshine in the wonderful fruitiness, and the tannins are extraordinarily refined, but they're also aggressive. fine now, with a long decant, but should develop bottle complexity over many years.
Cloudy's Vineyard