2016 | Caymus Vineyards | 'Widowmaker' En Chamberlin Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

This has a straight-shooting cabernet feel with deep cassis and blackcurrants, as well as sweeter blackberries on the palate that marry well with some sweeter oak. The balance is impressive here, as is the sustained fruit.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Planted on phylloxera-resistant 3309C rootstock, the 2016 The Widowmaker en Chamberlin Vineyard has a black-fruited nose with a tight core of dusty flowers. The wine is full-bodied and lush on the palate, with a tight minerality that will make this quite age-worthy. It's balanced yet still tight on the mid-palate, with a long, lingering finish. This is a beautiful and generous wine that delivers pleasure with a lush and dusty expression.
  

• Vinous: Dark, bright red. Black fruits, licorice, bitter chocolate, dried herbs and black pepper on the nose, with a floral topnote emerging with aeration. Suave, brisk, inviting wine with terrific inner-mouth energy and lift but no hard edges to its flavors of dark raspberry, black cherry and licorice. This is very young and backward today but in a distinctly elegant style, with nothing out of place. Shows a sexy Rocks salinity that's enlivened by spices and jasmine. Obviously oaky on the back end but finishes classically dry, with excellent rising persistence

Producer Information

In 1972, Chuck Wagner started Caymus Vineyards with his parents, Charlie and Lorna, with a humble plan and an uncharted future. The Wagner family were farmers with deep roots in the Napa Valley – in 1857, Chuck Wagner’s great-great grandfather captained a wagon train to California from Bible Grove, Missouri. Working together for decades, Chuck Wagner and his parents established the family’s work ethic, appetite for innovation, down-to-earth sensibility, and deep appreciation of the pleasures of good food and wine enjoyed with family and friends.Today, Caymus Cabernet is one of Napa Valley’s most celebrated wines. Made from grapes farmed in 8 of Napa Valley’s 16 appellations, the wine has a signature style that is dark in color, with rich fruit and ripe tannins – as approachable in youth as it is in maturity. Chuck Wagner continues to make two world-renowned Cabernet Sauvignons – Caymus Napa Valley and Caymus Special Selection. Caymus Special Selection Cabernet Sauvignon is the only wine in the world to be honored twice as Wine Spectator magazine’s “Wine of the Year” for the 1984 and 1990 vintages.

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