Cabernet Sauvignon "Meteor Vineyard", DuMOL, Coombsville, CA, 2016

The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Meteor Vineyard comes from the cooler Coombsville region of Napa and spent 20 months in 60% new French oak. It has a Saint Julien-like purity and elegance in its cassis and currant fruit as well as complex notes of tobacco, earth, and violets. With medium to full body, terrific balance, and ultra-fine tannins, it’s a beautiful wine that’s going to evolve gracefully for 20-25 years.

 

WINE ADVOCATE

 

The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Meteor Vineyard is a lovely cool-climate Cabernet. It has aromas of fresh black currants, graphite, black currant bud, cedar and red berry sparks. The full-bodied palate is concentrated but restrained, with minerally, crunchy black fruits, fresh and finely grained, finishing long on an iron note. (EB)

 

WINE SPECTATOR

 

Features jaw-dropping fruit, with boysenberry, açaí, plum and black currant notes stitched together seamlessly, inlaid with a graphite spine and backed by violet, anise and apple wood details on the finish. A large-scale version, showing cut, drive and freshness. (JM)