Morlet Family Vineyards Napa (Oakville) Cœur de Vallée 2013

A serious Cabernet from an intense year, this is still young as it rolls into its 10th year, and could benefit from longer in bottle. Emphasis on black tea, luscious ripe cherry, cocoa bean, slate, the full array of red, black and blue fruits, pomegranate and mandarin rind. Takes all that is great about 2013 and gives it a measured, fresh edge that is pretty irresistable. Beckstoffer To Kalon fruit. 85% new oak, native yeast fermentation, bottled unfined and unfiltered.