2018 Barnett "Rattlesnake" Spring Mountain District Cabernet Sauvignon

Here is a wine that, from the very first sniff, is sure to make even the most hard-to-please Cabernet Sauvignon lovers sit up and take note. Its utterly gorgeous aromas of extraordinarily deep, beautifully defined, cassis-like fruit are overlain by lovely oak that brings a tantalizing touch of crème-brûlée sweetness into play. While it is very solidly structured with the tannins to age for years and years, its altogether unrelenting fruit effortlessly outdistances its youthful grip and astringency. It is a wine that serious collectors of fine Cabernets who know the rewards of patience will not want to miss, and bringing it to the table any sooner than a half-decade hence would, in our minds, be a near-unforgiveable sin.