2019 Hall "Kathryn Hall" Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

From: Napa Valley, CABlend: 95% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot Taste & Critical Acclaim: 95 points Jeb DunnuckThe 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Kathryn Hall is a blend of 95% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Merlot, brought up mostly in new barrels. It’s a killer bottle of wine offering lots of ripe black fruits intermixed with savory herbs, melted chocolate, and tobacco. Medium to full-bodied on the palate, it shows the lush, round, velvety style of the 2019 vintage and is already impossible to resist. It’s going to evolve for 15+ years if well stored. (2/2023) 94 points DecanterLargely from the Sacrashe Vineyard in Rutherford, which the Halls planted in 1995. With 95% Cabernet and 5% Merlot, its a basket of strawberry, plum and chocolate-covered raspberries on the nose while the palate is enveloped in robes of dark berry fruit, cedar oak, liquorice and wet slate. Rich earth notes underscore plush tannins that glide to a long finish of wild herbs dusted with cocoa powder. (JC) (7/2022) 94 point