Just a stunner that balances dark savory flavor intensity with gorgeous sweet black fruit.  This wine is loaded with concentrated blackberry, a range of beautiful floral notes, our mountaintop resinous chaparral and classic leathery and cedary cabernet nuances.  When we first conceived of making a Vintner Select Cabernet with our inaugural 2005 vintage of this wine, what we had in mind was this beautifully round, velvety, approachable 2020 that is all about intense cabernet flavor and pleasing mouth-coating pleasure.  Not to be missed. 

To make our Vintner Select Cabernet Sauvignon, which is typically no more than 700 cases each year, we taste through each lot of cabernet sauvignon aging in the caves and select those barrels that we think combine to give the purest most intense concentration of cabernet flavor.  We do not blend in any other varietals, like merlot or petit verdot or cabernet franc.  The Vintner Select Cab is thus our only “100% pure” cabernet sauvignon. Our goal each vintage is for the Vintner Select Cab to be fruit forward while also loaded with cabernet typicity (flavors of cedar, graphite, forest floor or tobacco) and to be dense with silky fine-grained tannins.  While we make our Reserve Cab such that it has a bolder tannic finish and is our most imposing cabernet each vintage, the Vintner Select Cab is crafted to be structurally elegant and entirely seductive.