2023 Cathiard Vineyard Proprietary Red

Auslieferung im Juni 2026!
Delivery in June 2026!

The single-varietal 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate, from a section of the vineyard at 1,200 feet elevation and the oldest vines, is deep garnet-purple in color. It needs a fair bit of shaking to wake up notes of ripe blackberries, blackcurrant jelly, and anise, leading to an undercurrent of lavender, mint tea, mossy tree bark, and rose oil. The full-bodied palate is very taut and tightly wound with an array of black fruit, earthy, and floral notes, supported by firm, beautifully ripe, grainy tannins and seamless freshness, finishing with epic length and a quiet intensity. Stunning!
99/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown

Easily the best vintage that I have tried of this wine, such beautiful and vivid brambled berry fruit, spiralling down through the palate, juicy damson pit, iris perfume, fully of energy, depth, vivid and promise. Vines for this are 47 years old planted on St Georges rootstock with largely dry farming. 80% new oak for ageing. A fine example of what the Cathiard family has achieved in a short space of time with this Rutherford property, with winemaker Justine Labbé.
99/100 Jane Anson

(Napa Valley; 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from St Helena and Rutherford; 14.5% alcohol; tasted at Smith Haut-Lafitte with Fabien Teitgen and decanted 90 minutes before hand). A magnificent wine from a magnificent vintage. There’s glorious fruit purity and intensity. Black raspberry, loganberry, blackberry, bramble and a little hint of damson. Black cherries with aeration. There’s also that profound aromatic freshness that is so enticing and the signature of the best Bordeaux wine-making in Napa. A touch of blood orange. Bordeaux technically but that accentuates the sense of Napa in the glass – in all its glory and opulence but also just in terms of the clarity of its fruit expression. Floaty, aerial and lifted on the attack. Yet profoundly layered. Ample and structured, the pixilating tannins entering between the layers and also descending at the external reaches of the wine in the mouth. So fresh, especially when the tannins grip and, in so doing, precipitate additional freshness. It’s as if we have tears of sapidity that fall from the top of the palate after the lift and aerial character of the attack. This is impressively accessible given the tannic density but you really want to hold this back for the cellar maturation it warrants.
99/100 Colin Hay; The Drinks Business