WINEMAKER NOTES:
Andy Beckstoffer’s To Kalon Vineyard is considered perhaps the best vineyard in all of Napa Valley. Soils, aspect, drainage, meticulous growing practices- all have a part in the remarkability of this site. Wines from this vineyard are renowned for incredible delicacy, finesse and elegance. Bacio Divino's Janzen Beckstoffer To Kalon Cabernet Sauvignon is infused with the vineyard’s signature minerality, red fruit and graphite.
TASTING NOTES:
A barrel sample, the very deep purple-black colored 2016 Janzen Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is a little closed at this nascent juncture, offering glimpses of warm blackberry and spice cake notions with hints of incense, garrigue and hoisin. Full-bodied, rich and seductive, it has a lovely velvety texture and is packed with expressive fruit just waiting to unfurl, finishing long and multilayered.
-Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 99 pts
The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Janzen Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard is another brilliant 2016 that delivers the good. Its deep purple color is followed by a sexy, flamboyant, cassis and mulled plum-scented wine that has full-bodied opulence and power, loads of cedary incense, licorice, and sweet tobacco characteristics, and a blockbuster, lengthy finish. This is Napa at its most sexy and flamboyant, yet it has class, balance, and remarkable purity. Drink it any time over the coming 15 years or more.
-Jeb Dunnuck, 95pts
From the great Oakville estate is this spicy jammy red brimming in robust tannin and oak. A sweetness of cherry cordial, raspberry cream and vanilla make it richly rewarding on the textured, concentrated palate, with a lasting note of earthy gunpowder at the finish.
-Wine Enthusiast, 94 pts
