Piña Buckeye Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Howell Mountain)

Ficha técnica

Tipo

Red

Uva

Cabernet Sauvignon

País

United States

Região

Howell Mountain · Napa

Denominação

Howell Mountain

Corpo

full

Acidez

medium

Tanino

high

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201394 pts

  Bright red currant is complemented by dark, brooding black fruit tones in this complex, nuanced and grippy wine, young and showy in its mountain genetics. Forest floor, mint, cedar and graphite fleck the fruit, with complexity knocking on the door.

• 201292 pts

  Sweet, soft tannins inform the entry to this 100% varietal wine, a decadent exploration of dark chocolate and graham cracker. Powerful and intense, it smoothes out as it opens, revealing plush layers of blackberry and plum.

• 201093 pts

  The winery held this wine back from release for an additional year longer than their other new Cabs—which are from the 2010 vintage—for a good reason: to let the fruit catch up with the tannins. It has begun to, but only barely. Still shows the tight astringency of a young Howel…

• 200795 pts

  Piña has a spectacular record with this wine, and indeed with all their Cabs from Howell Mountain. The '07 is notable for its superb structure. It has pristine tannins and a good, dry mouthfeel, with very rich flavors of blackberries, currants, chocolate and cedar that are groun…

• 200595 pts

  Howell Mountain has been the source of Piña's best Cabs, and this single-vineyard bottling shows stunning concentration and complexity. It's closed and tannic now, in the manner of Howell Mountain Cabs, but enormous in ripe black currant fruit, with the power and focus to age fo…