2016 Nicholson Jones Sugarloaf Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

The 2016 Nicholson Jones Sugarloaf Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is a wine of magnificent maturity, exceptional mountain-grown intensity, and the kind of fully developed, age-worthy Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon character that only emerges from the finest hillside vineyard sites in their most complete expression after a decade or more of patient bottle aging. The Sugarloaf Vineyard, situated at elevation in the Napa Valley mountain landscape where volcanic soils, dramatic diurnal temperature swings, and naturally restrained yields create conditions for Cabernet of exceptional concentration and mineral backbone, produces a wine that has always rewarded cellaring with the discovery of increasing complexity and a remarkable integration of fruit, tannin, acid, and terroir character that defines great mountain-grown Napa Valley Cabernet at its best. The 2016 California vintage, celebrated among aficionados for producing red wines of outstanding depth, structural precision, and the natural balance for truly extraordinary longevity, has given the Nicholson Jones Sugarloaf Vineyard Cabernet everything needed for a development of the highest quality: aromas of dried blackberry, dark plum, graphite, cedar, crushed rock, iron mineral, coffee, and a magnificent earthy complexity lead to a silky, fully integrated palate with resolved tannins and a finish of real length and mountain-grown satisfaction.