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Chappellet Signature Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

$95.99
Reflecting the uniqueness of the long, cool 2023 growing season, this wine is beautifully dark, concentrated and nuanced. As it opens up, aromas of blackberry, creme de cassis, dark chocolate and roasted coffee emerge, as well as hints of vanilla bean, cedar, sage and incense. On the palate it is rich and full bodied with silky tannins and a polished structure that melds seamlessly with lush flavors of black cherry, currant and mocha, with sophisticated hints of fresh herbs, French oak and spice adding gravitas to a long, resonant finish.

Professional Scores

97

All of the Chappellet red wines in 2023 are simply dazzling. They capture the classic hallmarks of a cool vintage—blue-fruit fireworks mingling with black fruit and spice, and a towering tannic structure built for long-term cellaring. The Pritchard Hill and Hideaway wines are standouts, and in a photo finish, this Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon serves as a true standard-bearer and benchmark for the region. It’s got everything you could want and more: blue and black fruit, graphite and iron, violets, and fragrant toasty oak spices. Over the coming years, these elements will mellow and knit together into a beautifully complex, fragrant, and flavourful wine. For now, it’s bold, ripe, and seductively pure – so alluring you’ll struggle to put the glass down. Nuances of dark roasted coffee and dark chocolate weave fine threads of character through a bed of super-fine-grained tannins. Totally captivating.

Decanter
750ml