To Kalon Vineyard Co. Highest Beauty Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville 2019

The name can only be Andy Erickson if the résumé contains: Screaming Eagle, Dalla Valle, Ovid, Harlan, Staglin, Mayacamas, Newton, Arietta, Leviathan, AND Favia. If you are accustomed to admiring the handiwork of any of these ethereal wines and/or you continually crave polished, stately, elegant, luscious, and lasting-impression wines, then you should pay close attention to what Andy has added to his curriculum vitae: To Kalon Vineyard Company.  

This 2019 is just the third vintage here at ACME, and it has Highest Beauty written all over it!  

Bequeathed with access to the utmost premium plots within the renowned To Kalon Vineyard, Andy has the ultimate component in his winemaking mise en place, allowing him unlimited freedom to create a wine that exemplifies maximal pedigree. Quite simply, this just might mean that Andy made one of the wine industry's BEST new Oakville Cabernets. It would be nearly impossible not to when THE quintessential heritage Oakville property, known for its serial 100-point wines, is united with a winemaking legend who is one of the finest in the business. Predictably, the wine lives up to the Greek meaning of the word TO KALON: The Highest Beauty. Today it is often referred to as Napa's "First Growth" vineyard, its most iconic vineyard, and is firmly established as ultra-premium grape-growing real estate in the Napa Valley. Undisputedly, the original land expanse is one of the finest in the world for growing world-class Cabernet Sauvignon. With Andy at the helm of this gleaming, rising star project, he will focus on terroir-driven wines using many micro-plots within this celebrated vineyard, providing Cabernet buffs with another prominent player in the arsenal of world-class Cabernet. Other luminaries in the To Kalon realm are Andy Beckstoffer, who exclaimed, "In addition to the incredible quality of the land, To Kalon has a deep and fascinating legacy. It is truly a gift to make wines from this great vineyard."

This Cabernet is, in two words, seductively hypnotic. It is one of the most nuanced, uptown, refined wines we have had the pleasure of tasting. Its core of densely layered, distinctive black fruits dotted with alluring attributes of figs, tar, sagebrush, and crushed rocks engraves an honest-to-goodness grace as the wine rushes over the palate. Our advice to you is to stake a claim on this second vintage and become one of a small group of proud and satisfied owners of something better than GREAT.