Turnbull's Oakville Reserve Cab is a showcase of why Oakville Cab has become so renowned the world over. If you like pure luxury and explosive fruit in your glass of Cabernet Oakville is the absolute pinnacle. Turnbull has not one, not two, but three unbelievable estate vineyards in Oakville. The winery home block sits right across HWY 29, a literal stones throw, from the iconic To Kalon Vineyard. Fortuna Vineyard sits in a prime spot on the eastern edge of the valley floor right next door to Rudd Estate, Plumpjack, Bond - St Eden and many other famed vineyards. Leopoldina Vineyard is high in the hills looking down on the valley below. Neighbors include Dalla Valle, Ramey - Pedregal, Joseph Phelps - Bacchus, and Peter Michael - Au Paradis. The soils here are radically different from the valley floor with huge boulders of volcanic rock strewn throughout the vines and deep red, iron rich soils. Much of the vineyard is so steep and rocky, everything is done by hand, vine by vine. Winemaker Peter Heitz weaves dozens of micro-vinified lots together from each of these vineyards to create a truly special and emphatic expression of decadent Oakville Cabernet. The wine is super aromatic with bold, ripe red berry fruits, olallieberry, black raspberry, blackberry and walnut preserve, new leather, crushed rock, baking spice. The tannins are plush and fine, immediately approachable despite a muscular core of structure under the exuberant fruit. Wow, this is a seriously pleasure packed expression of Cabernet with layer upon layer of luxurious ripe fruit. The finish holds on to more of that iron-rich crushed rock, and graphite minerality that I presume must come from the large Leopoldina component. Incredible wine from incredible vineyards.