This wine has a refined nose with aromas of leather and cherries that are truthful to Cabernet Sauvignon in Washington. The flavors are layered with tones of blueberry jam, pomegranate and chocolate. The texture is rustic, yet silky, with a unique savory and inviting finish.
Blend: 90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Cabernet Franc
A beautiful elegance can be found in the Frank Family Napa Cabernet Sauvignon, a blend of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot aged 20 months in one-third new French oak. This is a good value for a Napa Cabernet. The color is a healthy dark ruby purple, the wine offers up beautiful blueberry and black raspberry fruit and is suggestive of a high-class Pomerol. The oak is pushed way to the background and the wine is medium to full-bodied with supple tannins and a long finish. Drinkable now, it should continue to evolve gracefully and hopefully even improve over the next 10 to 15 years.
There are only 80 cases of the N.V. Return of the Living Red for the USA market. A unique blend of 70% 2007 McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon and 30% 2004 Touriga Nacional from Langhorne Creek put together by Justin Lane and Adam Hooper, this purple-colored blockbuster offers up a super-fragrant bouquet of violets, lavender, baking spices, leather, black currant, and blackberry. Opulent and complex on the palate, this beautifully integrated, harmonious wine has exceptional length and a stratospheric pleasure quotient. Enjoy it over the next 10-12 years.
Lovely aromas of dark cherry, plum, wild blackberry and dried vanilla rise from the glass and compliment the abundant red and black fruit notes which develop immediately on the palate. The fruit lingers beyond the mid-palate to the finish where it is met by fine grain tannins and supple spice notes. This wine can be enjoyed thoroughly over the next 3-5 years with a long decant or thoughtful pairing and will continue to evolve to a vintage peak within 7-10 years.