{"title":"Ovid \u0026 Cardinale - 100pts","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"ovidcabernetsauvignon2016-750ml","title":"Ovid Red Blend 2021 - 750ml","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e100pts Decanter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach year, the blend of Ovid wines varies depending on the vintage. Winemaker Austin Peterson prefers not to pre-plan the blend, instead approaching each vintage with a fresh perspective. Often, the wine needs more Cabernet Sauvignon to qualify as a Napa Valley varietal wine. The vineyard features an abundance of Clone 4, planted across four of its 17 blocks within the 6ha site. This clone contributes a distinctive savoury character and polish, evident in the 2021 vintage with its flinty minerals, green tobacco, and mulberry fruit, reminiscent of Napa Cabernets from the 1970s. Comprising 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Cabernet Franc, 6% Merlot, and 4% Petit Verdot, the wine is aged 20 months in 66% new French oak. It is full-bodied with ripe, chewy tannins that assert themselves on entry but gradually soften, revealing a beautifully layered wine with mineral-infused mulberry fruit and green tobacco aromas. The wine exhibits notable tension, supported by a pH level 3.78, ensuring vibrancy and freshness. It is a pedigreed wine characterised by balance, intensity, and complexity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e100pts Jeb Dunnuck\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to the 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon, it's 79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Cabernet Franc, and the balanced 7% Merlot and 4% Petit Verdot. Insanely pure, it offers kaleidoscope-like aromatics of black and blue fruits, spring flowers, chocolate, burning embers, and bouquet garni. Full-bodied on the palate, it doesn't get any better, and it's concentrated, has building tannins, and a monster of a finish. Offering more generosity and opulence than just about every other wine in the vintage, this is a killer bottle of wine! It will make your eyes roll back in your head today, yet will ideally be given 4-5 years of bottle age and will evolve gracefully over the following two decades. Bravo!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e99pts Lisa Perrotti-Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeep garnet-purple colored, it’s a touch shy to begin at this youthful stage, needing considerable shaking to wake up notes of ripe black currants and red currants, giving way to hints of bay leaves, pencil lead, and forest floor. Full-bodied, the palate is jaw-droppingly stacked with layer upon layer of black fruits and earthy\/savory nuances, supported by very firm, beautifully ripe tannins and bold freshness, finishing long with a spectacular mineral firework display. This is clearly one of Ovid’s finest vintages and a keeper, for sure, with 25+ years of cellaring potential.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e98pts James Suckling\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe purity of fruit and class to this wine is really impressive, with roses, lavender. violets and blackcurrants and a sweet lift. Medium- to full-bodied with very long and racy tannins. They go from the front of your palate to the back. This is so beautiful and graceful yet structured. Give this at least four to five years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e97pts Vinous\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2021 Ovid is another exceptional wine in this range. Dark shades of Cabernet Sauvignon fruit open first, followed by hints of leather, lavender, spice, tobacco and incense that lend complexity. Deep and structured, with notably finessed tannins for a young mountain wine, the 2021 delivers the goods. This is quite impressive in the early going, especially with time in the glass. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinemaker Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2021 vintage continued the second year of drought in the western United States, and OVID was no exception. A cool February and March pushed budbreak back to historical normal with buds emerging in late March. Temperate weather gave way to a little bit of warmth during bloom, setting clusters that were long and loose – exemplary of ideal bunches. Ample sunlight and a temperate summer coaxed the grapes along and provided ideal ripening weather.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a result of the superb weather, harvest started a bit early with the first pick in mid-September. We slowly made our way through the estate, enjoying our time in the vines and collecting fruit from each block at its zenith of expression. Our last pick wrapped at the end of the first week of October. This luxurious time and length can be felt in these expansive wines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLoquacious in its approach, the 2021 OVID Napa Valley offers notes of fresh mulberry, kola nut, blackberry, black cherry, flint and bay laurel that are striking in purity. Broad and enveloping, this wine delivers undeniably delicious power and will continue to tell its vivid, seamless story for decades to come.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RNDC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31204364091457,"sku":"11332","price":399.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2424\/3053\/files\/ovid-red-blend-2021-750ml-350337.jpg?v=1768414901"},{"product_id":"cardinale-cabernet-sauvignon-2021-750ml","title":"Cardinale Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 - 750ml","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e100pts Jeb Dunnuck\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe perfect 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon checks in as 91% Cabernet Sauvignon and 9% Merlot, all of which spent 22 months in 80% new French oak. The idea of this release is to showcase fruit from throughout the valley, and to say that winemaker Chris Carpenter succeeded would be an understatement. It boasts off-the-charts richness and depth as well as notes of cassis, toasted spices, graphite, tobacco, and espresso, with perfectly integrated oak. Inky purple-hued, full-bodied, voluptuously textured, and flawlessly balanced, it can be drunk any time over the coming 25 years or more.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e99pts James Suckling\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLovely purple fruits with violets, lead pencil, mint, crushed stones, pine needles, resin, and ceramic. Medium to full body with ultra-fine tannins that show a silky beautiful texture. Blend of Stags Leap, Saint Helena, Yountville, and Atlas Peak plus all the mountain vineyards of Cardinale. A blend of 91% cabernet sauvignon and 9% merlot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e98pts Decanter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn my tasting with winemaker Chris Carpenter, we talked at length about differentiating sub-appellations of Napa in the Lokoya wines. Still, with Cardinale, the Oakville-based crown jewel in the Jackson Family portfolio, the idea is the sum must be greater than the parts. This is not an estate wine. It is culled from multiple appellations, typically between three and nine, depending on the vintage. Sources have been Vine Hill Ranch and To Kalon in the past. The 2021 is 91% Cabernet Sauvignon from Stags Leap, Rutherford, and St. Helena, with 9% Merlot from the 24ha Keyes Estate Vineyard on Howell Mountain, aged 22 months in 80% new French oak. Super savoury aromatics of black cherry, cedar, black liquorice, graphite, black tea, tobacco leaf, rose petal and sagebrush. Full-bodied with all those aromatic qualities making appearances on the full-bodied palate, framed by a soaring tannin profile that resolves with beautifully crisp and mouthwatering acidity, which is so impressive given the density of the wine. The acidity is so pure and cleansing it gives the sensation of fresh, crisp mountain water washing away the deeply robust and powerful tannins that frame this powerhouse wine, readying you for another sip.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e97pts Robert Parker's Wine Advocate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2021 Cardinale is a blend of 91% Cabernet Sauvignon from nine different AVAs, plus 9% Merlot from the Jackson Family's Keyes Vineyard on Howell Mountain. 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