Bevan Cellars, Tench Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Bevan Cellars, Tench Vineyard Cabernet SauvignonThe 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Tench Vineyard is packed with black fruit, chocolate, espresso, blackberry jam, leather, licorice, smoke and grilled herbs. Rich and expressive with tons of depth, the Tench is a classic Russell Bevan wine built on serious fruit intensity and structure. Antonio Galloni

Deeply hued

(from a leased

If I didn’t do it

This very serious effort will benefit from extended keeping

citrus and mineral reduction

capping it at 2030

but in a balanced

Best from 2015 through 2024

90% was vinified in stainless with 10% in new oak followed by an élevage in 1 year old wood)

This too displays a background trace of wood that highlights the very Vosne-style nose of spicy blue and black fruit aromas that dissolve into rich

53 ha parcel

full and packed with black fruit preserves and exotic spice notions with a velvety frame and a very long finish