Inglenook 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Rutherford (75cl, 14.2%)

A 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon from Inglenook in Rutherford, Napa Valley. The winery was completed by Gustave Niebaum in 1887 and is the oldest bonded winery in California. The 2019 vintage blends 96% Cabernet Sauvignon with 4% Cabernet Franc. The wine is a stunningly deep ruby, with heady aromas of brambly black cherry, vanilla, warm brioche and crème de cassis. As it warms, notes of red cherry, graphite and fennel emerge, carried by polished, refined tannins into a long, fragrant finish. Critics' notes also record ripe blackberries, blackcurrants, licorice, cloves, walnuts, chocolate, black cherry, mocha, spice, leather, crushed black raspberries, black plums, blackcurrant pastilles, earthy and structured character, sweet bay leaf, singed cedar and loam.