Lot 365
REALM CELLARS CABERNET SAUVIGNON BECKSTOFFER DR. CRANE VINEYARD 2009 (1)
REALM CELLARS CABERNET SAUVIGNON BECKSTOFFER TO KALON VINEYARD 2009 (1) WA 94
REALM CELLARS THE BARD 2014 (3) WA 95
REALM CELLARS THE TEMPEST 2014 (1) WA 95
Lot 365 Details
REALM CELLARS CABERNET SAUVIGNON BECKSTOFFER DR. CRANE VINEYARD 2009 (1)
Napa Valley.
marked label.
REALM CELLARS CABERNET SAUVIGNON BECKSTOFFER TO KALON VINEYARD 2009 (1)
Napa Valley.
stained label.
The more exuberant yet still tannic, full-bodied, powerful 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard offers sweet creme de cassis, Christmas fruitcake, licorice and espresso notes in a full-bodied, deep, multilayered style with sensational ripeness and texture as well as a beautiful finish. The tannins are present, but there is enough lavish fruit to easily balance them out. While approachable, this beauty will be better in 4-5 years and should last for two decades or more. October 2013 WA 94
REALM CELLARS THE BARD 2014 (3)
Napa Valley.
u. 3 x bn.
The 2014 The Bard is a blend of 90% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest Petit Verdot and Merlot. This is their largest cuvée of 2,000 cases. The wine shows exciting elegance, purity, a dense purple color, sweet black currant and blackberry fruit intermixed with licorice and charcoal. It is full-bodied, showing nice loamy forest floor notes. It also possesses a layered mouthfeel and terrific purity, texture and length. Drink it over the next 20+ years. December 2016 WA 95
REALM CELLARS THE TEMPEST 2014 (1)
Napa Valley.
u. bn.
The 2014 The Tempest, a blend of 62% Merlot, 33% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Petit Verdot is a 500-case cuvée aged in about 65% new Taransaud and Darnajou French oak cooperage. A beautiful nose of cedar wood, chocolate, spice box, forest floor and black and red fruits jumps from the glass of this dense, opulent, voluptuously textured and full-bodied wine with terrific purity, can be drunk now, or cellared for up to another 15 or more years. December 2016 WA 95
