2016 Clos du Val Cabernet Sauvignon Three Graces Blend
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The flagship is the 2016 Red Blend Three Graces, which checks in as 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot. It too is inky colored and boasts a rockingly Cabernet nose of blackcurrants, tobacco, crushed rocks, lead pencil, and graphite. It's pure, has full-bodied richness, and sweet tannins, and is a profound wine.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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The 2016 Red Blend Three Graces is stellar. Rich and unctuous, the Three Graces also has terrific freshness and plenty of structure to play off its more extroverted learnings. Dark red cherry, plum, espresso, bittersweet chocolate, rose petal and spice build as this racy, potent wine shows off its flamboyant yet polished personality. Dollops of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot round out the blend.
A blend of 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, the 2016 Proprietary Red Three Graces has a deep purple-black color and comes sashaying out of the glass with stunning black cherries, kirsch, warm plums and cassis notions with wafts of red roses, lavender, cinnamon stick, cloves and unsmoked cigars scents. Medium to full-bodied, the palate offers layers of elegant, perfumed berry components, framed with ripe, grainy tannins and culminating in a good, long, spicy finish.
The 2016 Three Graces is the most reticent of the four 2016s I tasted from Clos du Val. Even so, the wine's density, silkiness and persistence are impossible to miss. Blackberry jam, dark chocolate, spice and lavender are some of the many notes that flesh out in this unctuous, deeply expressive Three Graces, Clos du Val's new Cabernet Sauvignon-based blend.