The 2023 is Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley, drawn from Stagecoach, Morisoli, Indian Joe, and Warnock. A long, cool season let the fruit hang, and the winery says this one is to hold for decades.

It spent 13 months in French oak, 52 percent new, at 15.5 percent alcohol. If the fruit already comes from those four vineyards, what is the case for leaving the 2023 on the shelf?

Wine Advocate scored the 2023 a 96 and pointed to Morisoli and Stagecoach as the core of the blend. Cedar and vanilla sit with cherries, raspberries, and cassis.

James Suckling's 96 tastes of black cherry on an elegant texture, then graphite, cocoa, black olive, and tobacco leaf. Owen Bargreen's 95 is inky, with cassis, wintergreen, and black cherry compote. Wine Enthusiast's 94 moves from black currants, plum skin, and fig into chocolate, tobacco, and graphite, and the acidity clears the finish.

The core is opaque and dark, and the rim flashes neon crimson. Blackcurrant, Amarena cherry, and California chaparral come first, with a light kiss of oak.

Blue fruit, blood orange, dark chocolate, and rhubarb fill the palate. The tannins are fully in, and the close is blackberry preserves and licorice. Add it at $150. Twelve bottles ship free in the lower 48. Hawaii and Alaska are quoted on their own.

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