Heritance Cabernet Sauvignon (75cl, 14.6%)

Heritance Cabernet Sauvignon is a Napa Valley red wine made in a Bordeaux-inspired style. The 2019 blend is 94% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Merlot and 2% Petit Verdot. The grapes are hand-harvested and hand-sorted, cold soaked for three to five days, fermented over 14 days with daily pumpovers, given an extended maceration of 7 to 14 days, and aged 22 months in 100% French oak barrels, half of them new. Aroma: dark berries, blackberry and cassis, with dried herb, cedar, clove, cigar box, graphite and tobacco leaf. Taste: supple and juicy red cherry, blackberry and plum, then black currant, crushed rock, vanilla and faint roasted coffee. Finish: medium-long, with chewy tannins tapering into black pepper and cedar.