Be quick to react here folks, we've managed to recreate the same stellar deal on the 2016 Reserve Speciale that we had on the 2015 that sold out very very fast. The 2016 is also an absolute beauty! Again an immensely powerful wine with considerable cellaring potential. Built on smoldering black and blue fruits, cassis, blackcurrant, mulberry, cigar box tones, graphite, gravelly minerals. Full bodied, less overtly tannic than the 2015, but just as concentrated on the palate with rich fruit underpinned by true mountain-grown power and structure. The wine saw a little more new oak this vintage (62% new for 32 months) which may have helped tame the tannins and gives a beautiful polish to a very potent, immense Cabernet. Once again this Reserve bottling is blended from the best parcels of Cabernet from the very best vineyards in Sonoma including the historic Kellogg Vineyard in Knights Valley, Remick Ridge on Sonoma Mountain and the famed Monte Rosso Vineyard on Moon Mountain. Named for its red, rocky, volcanic soils, Monte Rosso sits at 1,300ft elevation, its old Cabernet vines, planted in the 1940s and 1950s, produce some of the very finest fruit money can buy and form the core of this wine. As I said with the prior vintage, this bottling can hold its own against the very best of Howell Mountain, Pritchard Hill, Mount Veeder etc. If it said Napa Valley on the label it would undoubtedly be 3-4 times the price. Drink it now with a vigorous decant or lay it away for the next 3 to 4 decades. A monumental wine that deserves a spot in any Cabernet lovers cellar.