Snowden The Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon

The 2011 Snowden Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon is a beautiful young bottle of cabernet, coming in at a very civilized 13.9 percent alcohol and offering up lovely purity and nascent complexity on both the nose and palate. The first class bouquet offers up scents of red and black cherries, “Rutherford Dust” spice tones, cigar smoke, a lovely signature of soil, incipient notes of the chipotles to come and a deft framing of spicy new wood. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and intensely flavored, with lovely transparency, a fine core,a fine chassis of tannin and a very long, poised and focused finish. This is a young wine that will need a good six to ten years in the cellar to really blossom, but it has stellar constituent components and will be a cellar treasure if given sufficient bottle age. A very grown up style of Napa cabernet that has outstanding potential