2017 | Booker Vineyard | Ones Cabernet Sauvignon

The 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Ones boasts a saturated purple color as well as a magical bouquet of crème de cassis, tobacco, scorched earth, graphite, and white flowers. Reminding me of a great vintage of Léoville Las Cases, it has incredible purity, tons of graphite, lead pencil, and violets, full body, and a huge finish.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Deep ruby-purple, the 2017 Ones Cabernet Sauvignon represents the best from each vintage, "a cherry-picking of the best barrels," says Eric Jensen. It has a layered nose: crème de cassis, cherry jam and blue fruit hints are accented by cigar wrapper, cedar, graphite and violets plus hints of Indian spices. It's full-bodied and explosive with spicy, ripe fruit layers in a velvety frame, lifted and fresh with a long, layered finish.

• Vinous: Glass-staining violet color. Sexy red and dark berry liqueur, cherry-cola, pipe tobacco, smoky oak and vanilla qualities on the powerfully scented nose, along with a suave floral topnote. Smooth, broad, alluringly sweet blackcurrant, cherry preserve and mocha flavors show outstanding depth and energy and an exotic spice note emerges with aeration. The spice and floral notes resonate on a strikingly long, seamless finish that features fine-grained, even tannins and densely packed dark fruit character.

Producer Information

Booker Vineyard is a wine producer in Willow Creek District near the border of Templeton Gap District in Paso Robles, California. It makes a number of wines from Rhône Valley varieties with a focus on the red grapes Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre. The estate covers roughly 30 hectares (72 acres) southwest of the city of Paso Robles. It was established in 2001 by Eric and Lisa Jensen who bought a section of property left from the Booker brothers' farm – a large tract of land first cultivated by local philanthropists Claude and Dick Booker in the 1920s. The Jensens started as growers supplying local winemakers and earned a reputation for the quality of their grapes. They sold to notable Paso Robles producers including Saxum Vineyards (who make the Booker Vineyard Red) and L'Aventure, before deciding to vinify some of their own fruit from 2005. Booker makes its wine entirely from estate-grown fruit but continues to sell to other producers as well. Booker farms predominantly red Rhône varieties with more than half the vineyard planted to Syrah. However, other grapes such as Tempranillo are planted in small quantities along with some white Rhône staples such as Roussanne, Viognier and Marsanne used in Booker's lone white bottling. Production is limited to roughly 4500 cases annually, most of which is sold through a mailing list.

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