2022 Chimney Rock Cabernet Sauvignon, Stags Leap District, USA (750ml)

WINEMKAER’S NOTES:

Abundant with sultry notes of cherry, tobacco, vanilla, and caramel with hints of dried sage. This fruit-forward beauty is silky in texture and mid-palate with a backbone of very fine grain tannins and a long finish.

Blend: 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Merlot, 3.6% Petit Verdot, .4% Malbec

TASTING NOTES:

A blend of 76.3% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19.8% Merlot, 3.5% Petit Verdot and 0.4% Malbec, Chimney Rock’s 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate Grown Stags Leap District offers up some peppery-clove spice notes and hints of hickory layered atop blackberries and black cherries. It’s full-bodied, velvety and slightly open-knit but nicely concentrated, ending long, with hints of vanilla oak.

– Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, 92 pts.

The nose is lifted and fresh, with aromas of wild blackberries, blueberries and herbs de Provence. The palate is full-bodied with notes of coffee beans, tobacco and cigar box. Drinkable now, but best from 2028.

– James Suckling, 91 pts.