TN: Chappellet Pritchard Hill Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2013

Inky dark purple almost to the rim.

One of the first things that pops to mind smelling this wine - beyond the melange of aromas - is poise. This wine is obviously well-crafted and from the first sniff appears to be impeccably balanced.

Subtle toasty French oak embrace the other aromas in this wine: blueberry cream, currant, vanilla, violets and blue flowers.

The wine is eminently drinkable if youthful today. Likely to unwind into something with more complexity and expressivity with a few years.

Hard to nitpick with this wine today but if I were to say what else I would like to see here, it would be more mid-palate depth

Well done.

Thanks for taking one for the team!

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