Cultivar 2019 Cabernet Franc   

2019 Cultivar Cabernet Franc Oak Knoll, Napa Valley

San Francisco Wine Panel Score 92+ Points
This fine Cab Franc is both youthful and attractively juicy. It shows fine varietal character in its aromas of sour dark cherry, Italian Maraschino cherry, cherry pit, cinnamon “red hots”, rose, baking spice, cedar and emerging suggestion of ripe blueberry. It is Cabernet-like in body and gives the impression of gutsiness. It has fine tannic grip and long-lingering flavors of cherry pit, Italian Maraschino cherry, blueberry, rose, sandalwood, canela and baking spice, with undercurrents of star anise and dark minerality. A fine dinner wine now, it should grow more so over the next eighteen months or so. 190 cases made.