Whitehall Lane 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Millennium MM Vineyard   

2021 Whitehall Lane Cabernet Sauvignon Millennium MM Vineyard, Rutherford, Napa Valley

San Francisco Wine Panel 97+ Points

Deep purple in color and clearly age-worthy despite its already notable charms, this is potentially as fine a Cabernet as Whitehall Lane has ever produced. The nose is a luxurious, intense and focused mix of blueberry, blackberry and black currant scents, with undercurrents of licorice root, cedar, black tea, graphite and dark earth. On the palate, it is as structured and youthful as is expected from its great vintage, so the fruit - so dramatic in the nose - is a bit more restrained on the palate. On the palate, the wine is highly polished and packed with coiled black currant, blueberry and blackberry fruit that slowly expands with airing and lingers with focus and class. Dinner balanced already, it is certain to grow ever more deep and lovely over the next five years and probably well beyond. 336 cases produced.