Tasting Notes

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ABV:

14.5 %

Notes

The magnificent story of Martha’s vineyard started in 1965 with a handshake deal between the Heitz family and owners the May family. Today, three generations on and the relationship is as strong as ever. Joe Heitz produced the first vintage with the vineyard on the label in 1966. 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from the Oakville district. The wine is aged for 3 and a half years in wood (1 year in american oak vats and 2 and a half years in Limousin french oak barriques.) More opulent than the Trailside but just as serious and even more powerful, less of the spice and earthiness more of the fruit character, compared to the savoury mineral Trailside. Open-knit flavours of sweet berries and currants, strawberry, fruit liqueur, glycerol, blackthorn and touches of mocha, beautifully velvety tannins provide the heady fruit with a good bit of backbone and direction, this is so complete, an enormously bewithching Napa Cab of the very highest calibre.

Critics score

Score:

100

Source:

Stephen Tanzer, Vinous

Date:

05/2016

Notes

Ruby-red. Pungent, slightly high-toned, resiny nose is at once liqueur-like and a bit weedy. Fat and sweet but a bit chunky and unrefined, with exotic chocolate tones and a strong eucalyptus element underscoring the overripe/underripe impression given by the nose. Finishes with rather medicinal tannins and a dry quality.

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