Cervantes - Cabernet Sauvignon2021
RED WINE
- Producer Cervantes
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Blend
2% Cabernet Franc
98% Cabernet Sauvignon - Country USA
- Region California
- Appellation Napa Valley
- UPC 0 15643 80762 6
Reviews
Jeb Dunnuck 94
Ripe blue fruit, savory herbs, and a touch of lavender and sagebrush all emerge from the 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon, a medium to full-bodied, charming, layered, ripe 2021 that's already drinking nicely. It should keep for a decade.
by JD, Jeb Dunnuck , 2023
The Wine Independent 98
The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon, with 16% Malbec and 6% Petite Sirah in the blend, is deep garnet-purple in color. It needs a little coaxing to bring out notes of warm cassis, juicy plums, and boysenberry preserves leading to hints of violets, star anise, and forest floor with a waft of black olives. The full-bodied palate delivers incredible tension and depth, with firm, grainy tannins to frame the taut, tightly packed black fruits, finishing long and with wonderful purity.
by LPB, The Wine Independent , 2024
James Suckling 93
Black berry, black olive, bark and pine cone character follow through to a full body with round and chewy tannins with black currants and dark chocolate. It's savory and harmonious for Pope Valley
by JS, James Suckling , 2024
Vinous Media 93
The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley) is an inky, full-throttle wine. Black cherry, plum, black currant, chocolate, licorice and copious new oak are all dialed up. There's not a ton of subtlety here, but this is impeccably done for this style.
by AG, Vinous Media , 2023
Technical Details
Description
Pope Valley ~ it has been called Napa Valley's last frontier. Just over the peak of Howell Mountain and alongside Pritchard Hill, this is a place far less-traveled yet full of promise. When Xavier Cervantes was hunting for properties in Napa, he looked in all the familiarly revered places in Napa for vineyards; Oakville, Rutherford, Pritchard Hill, etc. The Mexico City entrepreneur got close to capturing his dream property twice, once with a vineyard on Atlas Peak and once on Howell Mountain, both which fell through at the 11th hour. It took seven long years, but after exhausting all other possibilities, Cervantes discovered and purchased a 1,100-acre ranch. This hidden gem, in the far eastern reaches of Napa County and at the edge of the county's viable viticultural land, is nestled in Pope Valley. Although grapes have grown in this part of Napa since the 19th century, it has never been named an American Viticultural Area. Remote, rugged, unspoiled, and picturesque, the area is rarely discussed and, amazingly, scarcely developed. But as the Napa Valley floor grows ever more crowded, and its land values skyrocket, interest has moved outward. Like Coombsville, Napa's youngest sub-AVA that was long neglected until a recent surge of awareness, Pope Valley is the latest Napa region to rise from obscurity. It may also be Napa's last.Cervantes' estate, which he calls Hine Ranch, marks the highest-profile project yet to bottle an estate Pope Valley wine made at a Pope Valley winery. Xavier hired winemaker Andy Erickson (Favia, Dalla Valle, Mayacamas, Arietta, and formerly of Screaming Eagle and Staglin) to join him on his spirited adventure and famed architect Howard Backen (Harlan, Kenzo, Futo) to build the winery and equestrian center on the property; all sharing the bold, singular dream to realize the full possibility of the unsung terroir of Pope Valley and finally giving justice to one of Napa's great landscapes.