Item No. 0019100103517
Klipsun Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
Klipsun Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
Klipsun Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
Klipsun Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

Klipsun Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

Klipsun Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

94+
Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate
93
Wine Enthusiast
91
Vinous / Antonio Galloni
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Varietal
Cabernet Sauvignon
Region
Washington
Sub-Appellation
Red Mountain
Alcohol
14.5%

Overview

All fruit going into the 2017 Klipsun Cabernet Sauvignon is picked at perfect sugars levels with great fruit maturity and flavors. Overall, the quality of the 2017 harvest is as high as the 2016. However, the style is slightly different. The 2017 wine has a firmer structure, more spice & mocha in the nose and will take a few more years than the 2016 to reach a perfect balance between fruit and tannin.

Aging

20 months in 100% new French oak, 14 months in bottle.

Fermentation

Small stainless steel tanks. Some with open tops to allow for punching down and others with a closed top that were pumped over.

Winemaker

Doug Fletcher

Tasting Notes

Style

Bold, Complex, Structured

Flavor

Black Currant, Blackberry, Mocha

Aroma

An intense blackberry / boysenberry nose that melds with the spicy oak aromas.

Taste

Blackberry flavors with Red Mountain’s trademark hint of herbs and minerals. A pleasant acidity and rich, balanced mouthfeel. A well-developed mid palate, the result of carefully managed tannins that are evident but seamless. The finish is smooth and lingering.

Wine Ratings

94+

Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

“Full-bodied, generous in complexity and still tight in the mouth, the wine unpacks layers of cedar and vanilla tones with dusty purple flowers and bitter dark chocolate across the mid-palate, giving way to fine-grained tannins that will loosen with time...

93

Wine Enthusiast

On the palate, the fruit is bright and juicy, exquisitely balanced, with an inter play of chocolate and spice barrel notes.It hangs on the finish. There's a pleasing sense of texture to it all. It needs time for the oak to integrate and the tannins to unwind.

91

Vinous / Antonio Galloni

Supple, spicy, deep red berry and plum flavors are complicated by smoked meat and sexy oak tones. I find that the wood masks the site character but there's lovely restrained sweetness here and the wine finishes with serious but well-managed tannins and excellent length.