2013 Carter Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard
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The 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Las Piedras (which was renamed La Verdad in 2015) is another brilliant wine, as well as just about pure perfection in Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. From a site just outside of St. Helena, it has darker, almost blue fruits as well as a core of floral, chocolate, violet, and spice-driven aromas and flavors. Beautifully textured, full-bodied, majestic, and flawlessly balanced, drink bottles any time over the coming 15+ years. I finished my raw note with "killer juice."
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The 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard, which comes from St. Helena, has that blueberry, gravelly, wet-pebble note that I often associate with great vintages of La Mission Haut-Brion. The wine has an inky purple color, gorgeous black raspberry, blueberry liqueur notes, licorice and earth. Full-bodied and opulent with silky tannins, this is a tour de force in winemaking and pure perfection. This is absolutely riveting, prodigious wine that has to be tasted to be believed. Drink it over the next 25 years.
Carter's 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard is deep, dense and unctuous on the palate, with plenty of black cherry jam, smoke and graphite nuances. This is an especially rich, sweet Cabernet, but there is plenty of Las Piedras power lurking beneath the fruit.