MacDonald Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville 2018
$185
This is pumping along nicely, with a torrent of cassis and crushed plum fruit at first, followed quickly by a second wave of steeped blackberry and boysenberry flavors. Underneath there's a well-embedded singed alder note and a steady tug of warm, gravelly earth. Racy licorice snap and sassafras notes chime through the finish, adding more energy to what is already an impressively terroir-driven wine. Best from 2022 through 2040. 500 cases made.
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Wine Type and Color
Red Still
Magazine Issue
Oct 31, 2021
Top 100
Wine #47 of 2021
Accolades
Highly Recommended
Grape
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon, native to Bordeaux, has thick blue skins, giving the resulting wines plentiful tannins and phenolics and making them particularly ageworthy. Over the past 50 years, Cabernet Sauvignon has spread to all of the New World's major winegrowing regions, and it remains one of France's most important grapes.
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MacDonald Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville 2018
This is pumping along nicely, with a torrent of cassis and crushed plum fruit at first, followed quickly by a second wave of steeped blackberry and boysenberry flavors. Underneath there's a well-embedded singed alder note and a steady tug of warm, gravelly earth. Racy licorice snap and sassafras notes chime through the finish, adding more energy to what is already an impressively terroir-driven wine. Best from 2022 through 2040. 500 cases made.
Details
Wine Type and Color
Red Still
Magazine Issue
Oct 31, 2021
Top 100
Wine #47 of 2021
Accolades
Highly Recommended
Grape
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon, native to Bordeaux, has thick blue skins, giving the resulting wines plentiful tannins and phenolics and making them particularly ageworthy. Over the past 50 years, Cabernet Sauvignon has spread to all of the New World's major winegrowing regions, and it remains one of France's most important grapes.
