Calluna Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon The Colonel's Vineyard 2020

With the enviable position at the top of the property, The Colonel’s Vineyard is a small, 1¼ acre block planted to clone 337 Cabernet Sauvignon back in 2005 after acquiring this undeveloped hillside property. The 2020 Colonel’s Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon was vinified utilizing the barrel fermentation process that winemaker David Jeffrey learned from Alain Raynaud while working at Chateau Quinault in St. Emilion.

"The Colonel’s Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon from David Jeffrey is outstanding in 2020. This vineyard is sun-drenched each day until late in the afternoon, so it always has a touch higher octane than the other Calluna bottlings, and this is the case in 2020 as well, as the Colonel comes in at an even fourteen percent octane. The wine’s aromatic constellation is deep and pure, offering up scents of sweet cassis, black cherries, cigar smoke, a fine base of soil tones, a hint of tobacco leaf and a suave framing of cedary oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, focused and sports outstanding depth at the core, with a very refined profile, lovely soil undertow and grip, ripe, seamless tannins and a long, vibrant and nascently complex finish. The balance on the Colonel seems to get more elegant and seamless with every passing vintage. First class juice!"