2021 "Morlet Estate"

The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Morlet Estate is another opulent, hedonistic wine that is still taking shape post bottling. Here, too, readers will have to be patient, as the 2021 needs a number of years to shed some of its considerable baby fat. Today it is dense, powerful and almost shockingly primary in its intensity.

- Antonio Galloni (12/2023)

The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Morlet Estate comes from the estate just north of St. Helena and is the finest expression of this site I've tasted to date. Incredible darker cherries, currants, smoked tobacco, charcoal, and a Haut-Brion-like gravelly earth character all flow to a full-bodied, beautifully concentrated yet flawlessly balanced 2021. It has the vintage's pure, focused, inward style and needs 4-6 years in the cellar, yet this is an absolute blockbuster of a wine that will have 30+ years of prime drinking. (12/2023)

Deep garnet-purple in color, the single-varietal 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Morlet Estate is quite shut down to begin, needing a lot of shaking to wake up notes of juicy blackberries, black plums, and cassis giving way to nuances of crushed rocks, star anise, lilacs, and mossy tree bark. The full-bodied palate shimmers with energetic black fruit laced with floral accents and wonderfully fine-grained tannins, finishing long and achingly fragrant. (02/2024)