Hundred Acre, Ark Deep Time

Hundred Acre, Ark Deep TimeMedium to deep garnet purple colored, after more than three years in barrel, the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Ark Vineyard Deep Time delivers the goods with super charged scents of warm black cherries, cassis, blueberry compote, dried mulberries and candied violets plus a provocative undercurrent of cigar box, pencil lead, tar, tapenade and anise. The rich, hedonic, full bodied palate provides a firm, finely grained frame to support the voluptuous fruit,

Yeasty and spicy

with a vanilla

Named after the ship which transported winery founder John Campbell to Australia in 1857

pungent flowers and smoky minerals

The palate is perhaps showing its age a bit more with ferrous red fruit

This is not for long term aging

There is outstanding density to the overtly stony medium-bodied flavors that are rich to the point of opulence while delivering superb length on the balanced

I suspect that this will flesh out and unwind with a few years of bottle age

very elegant in style with a precise

Les Athets and Les Herbues)

where it was terrific

with an almost Port-like undercurrent towards the finish