Rudd, Oakville Estate Red

Rudd, Oakville Estate RedA blend of 94% Cabernet Sauvignon and 6% Cabernet Franc, the 2018 Oakville Estate Proprietary Red Wine was aged for 22 months in French oak barrels, 55% new. Deep garnet purple colored, it sashays out of the glass with flamboyant scents of candied violets, red roses, black raspberries and fragrant earth over a core of cassis, wild blueberries and Morello cherries with a waft of pencil lead. Medium to full bodied, the palate is an exercise in poise,

Blackish purple

but it too is promising

began a bit lean and peppery but put on weight as it opened in the glass

my sense is that this will eventually come together

This is also brooding and reticent with an intensely earthy nose of both red and dark pinot fruit that is trimmed in hints of game

The first vintage for this wine was 2004

While the medium weight flavors do not have the same size and power of the Clos des Chênes

with an exotic

aristocratic even

floral and spice

44 ha parcel of 90+ year old vines situated directly across from Chambertin

The 2018 Barolo Cannubi is a bright and lively expression with wild fruit and cassis over a tight and elegant mouthfeel