2021 CADE Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve
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A selection of the winery's best barrels, the 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve offers up hints of mocha and dark chocolate set against a backdrop of blueberry fruit. Some subtle herbal nuances creep in as well—sage and thyme—also cedar and perhaps even pine needles. It's a complex array of flavors and aromas delivered by a full-bodied, richly concentrated wine that's never hard, just plush and velvety from start to finish.
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Jeb Dunnuck
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The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve is a tiny selection of the best barrels, and it's another just about perfect 2021, offering a saturated purple hue as well as an awesome bouquet of black and blue fruits, spicy oak, graphite, and iron, with a kiss of Graves-like scorched earth. With full-bodied richness, a deep, layered, awesome mid-palate, and building tannins, this classic, age-worthy Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon deserves a solid 5-7 years of bottle age and will see its 30th birthday in fine form.
The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve 13th Vineyard is packed with dark red/purplish fruit, white pepper, sage, mint, and cedar. Swaths of tannin wrap it all together. Most Cade wines are quite forward, but here, readers will have to be patient. Blood orange, white flowers, chalk, and pipe tobacco build into the linear, driving finish.