2019 Vine Hill Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon VHR Oakville AVA | Napa Valley California 750ml

In the wake of the lauded 2018 growing season, noted for its uniformity and temperate warm weather, 2019 again delivered ideal conditions for a remarkable vintage from Vine Hill Ranch. The result is a Cabernet Sauvignon wine of tremendous depth and complexity.
The 2019 VHR, Vine Hill Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon is dark, sumptuous, and wonderfully expressive. Blackberry fruit, gravel, spice, menthol, licorice, and dried flower notes provide the vintage with myriad layers of breadth and texture, celebrating the varied nature of this marvelous vineyard. The vintage's expansive and lush mouthfeel is framed by a seamless bond of structured fine-grain tannins, dark ripe fruit, and vibrant acidity. Beautiful and wonderfully complex, the 2019 VHR Cabernet Sauvignon possesses a signature depth and opulence, harmoniously showcasing the attributes of the individual vineyard blocks to create a wine that is balanced, persistent, textural, and distinctive to our family's vineyard in Oakville. | Vine Hill Ranch

Flowers and brambleberries on the nose, together with lavender and sandalwood. Very perfumed. Full-bodied, yet very tight and polished, with gentle, graceful sensibility that shows through clearly and subtly. The tannins are soft and focused, providing finesse and a fine texture that runs the length of the wine... | 98 points, James Suckling

Deep purple-black colored, the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon slowly unfurls, revealing a gregariously fruity personality of juicy blueberries and fresh black cherries to start. With patience and swirling, a core of black currant jelly, violets, cracked black pepper, eucalyptus, and tilled soil emerges. Full-bodied, firm, and impressively structured, the palate ahs super-ripe, fine-grained tannins and bags of black fruits sparked by floral and mineral nuances, finishing with epic length and energy. Composed of 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. 1200 cases produced. #17 The Wine Independent Top 25 QPR Collector Wines of 2022 | 99 points, Lisa Perrotti-Brown for The Wine Independent

Even better, yet certainly in the same mold as the 2014, the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon VHR is straight-up heavenly stuff, and I suspect it will warrant another point in 5-7 years. This deep purple-hued effort has a great nose of cassis, redcurrants, dried herbs, and tobacco, with some background chocolaty oak. Deep, full-bodied, concentrated, and mouth-filling, it has a seamless texture, velvety tannins, and the balance to evolve for over two decades. It doesn't get much more classic Oakville. | 99 points, Jeb Dunnuck for jebdunnuck.com