this portion of the winery's vineyard always yields cabernets of enormous concentration with hard tannins. the 2009 is a classic, detonating in the mouth with laserlike blackberry and cassis flavors, to which new oak brings additional richness of smoky cedar. it's really a beautiful wine, but very tannic, even by von strasser standards. give it at least eight years, and it could be drinking well 20 years from now.
Sori Bricco Vineyard