O'Shaughnessy Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2022This is a radiant Cabernet. Each release, this wine marries fruit from the winerys estate properties on Howell Mountain and Mount Veeder. Its classic Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, capturing the essence of the vintage with its lively bouquet of violets, sandalwood, wild plum, and kirsch. The palate is dense and focused with integrated tannins and layers of boysenberry, crme de cassis, bittersweet chocolate, and tobacco. This is a wine that

Region: Marlborough

Region: Galicia

and wet earth

Appellation: Pays d'Herault

in Southwest France

As I mentioned in the introduction

A very well-respected wine writer once mistakenly lumped Lessona into the mix of all of northern Piedmont Nebbiolo wines as “a rather less pure form than a great Barolo

Unfined and unfiltered

The wine smells like the earth right before it rains and tastes like the pine forests high on the hills and the wild fruits in the underbrush

No added yeasts

then transitions to crisp apple and pear flesh with a hint of hazelnut and chalky minerality

Montbellet and Viré-Clessé