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100 Jeb Dunnuck -
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Lastly, and pure perfection in the glass, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon is 100% varietal from two great sites: Missouri Hopper in Oakville and Las Posadas in Howell Mountain. Aged in 100% new French oak, it offers an incredible bouquet of creme de cassis, liquid rock, graphite, lead pencil shavings, and unsmoked tobacco, with searing minerality in the aromatics as well as on the palate. Offering full-bodied richness, terrific concentration, and building tannin, this backward, dense, yet perfectly balanced 2015 needs 4-5 years of cellaring and will impress for 2-3 decades. Bravo!
97 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -
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The 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon is made predominately from Cabernet Sauvignon from Beckstoffer Missouri Hopper vineyard. It gives a very deep purple-black color and is redolent of creme de cassis, blueberry compote, Indian spices and crushed rocks with touches of black soil, cigar boxes and Provence herbs. The palate is built like a brick house with a solid frame of firm, fine-grained tannins and plenty of freshness supporting the generous black and blue fruits and beautiful spice layers, finishing on a lingering mineral note. 200 cases were made.
96 Vinous -
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The 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon is fabulous. Rich, inky and explosive, the 2015 is endowed with serious intensity. Creme de cassis, blueberry jam, menthol, licorice and graphite all infuse this sumptuous, flamboyant Cabernet Sauvignon. The 100% new oak is beautifully integrated, even at this early stage. The 2015 is mostly Missouri Hopper and about 7% Cabernet Sauvignon from David Abreu's Las Posadas Vineyard on Howell Mountain. The 2015 is silky and unctuous, but not at all heavy.
Technical Details
- BlendCabernet Sauvignon
- WinemakerHelen Keplinger
- CountryUS
- RegionCalifornia North Coast
- AppellationNapa
Carte Blanche Cabernet Sauvignon 2015
Cabernet Blends | US
JD100, WA97, VN96
Too late, we are SOLD OUT!
If I were you, I’d do RIGHT NOW what I did 2 minutes ago. BUY THIS. If you love dead-serious Napa Cabernet, at a fraction of the price of most other 100-pointers, with credentials like this, you should literally drop what you are doing. Just our opinion.
Got some? Excellent. Here’s the skinny:
- Helen Keplinger winemaker. ‘Nuff said!!
- 100 points Jeb Dunnuck. “Bravo!” he said. Indeed.
- Hailing from two great vineyards -- Beckstoffer Missouri Hopper in Oakville and Los Posados on Howell Mountain.
- Carte Blanche is owned by Nicholas Allen, owner of ChateauHaut-Brion and Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion!
- Only 200 cases made for the world!
- The fantastic 2015 vintage.
- Lastly, the price. This is a superb “smart buy” for wines with this level of critical acclaim and pedigree.
This wine is tremendous. Helen’s precision winemaking is on full display in this intensely complex, tightly wound, layered Cabernet. Large-scaled for sure, but with a wonderful sense of harmony. We can’t stress it enough --- this is awesome stuff for the price! SUPER LIMITED! First come, first served…!
About the Producer
Carte Blanche is Nicholas Allen’s (owner of Haut-Brion and La Mission Haut Brion!) Napa project, utilizing the very best vineyard sites and an elite winemaker, (and one of our all-time favorite people) Helen Keplinger. Nicholas’ family has been in the wine business for nearly a century, since his great grandfather, Clarence Dillon, acquired Chateau Haut-Brion in 1935, and from an early age he gained an exposure and appreciation in wine. Eventually, he was inspired to produce his own boutique label in Napa Valley and he sought out the very best terroir and locked in long-term contracts where he could control the farming.