Drinking this wine so young is akin to robbing the cradle, but the tri-tip insisted. A wine club-only allocated wine, this single vineyard offering is a 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from the Chappellet family's Pritchard Hill estate at around 1,425 feet in elevation. It's still showing a bit of baby fat with violet and cocoa aromas, intense cassis and blackberry fruit, mild sage and madrone notes, rocky minerality, good acidity, and plenty of amped-up intensity, and ample but polished tannins. It will be 4 or 5 years before this wine shows its full potential, and it will have a life much longer than that. Simply first-rate. (97 Points)
