The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon (Santa Ynez Valley) captures all the intensity of Cabernet from this part of Santa Barbara County in a cooler vintage that yielded wines built more on savory intensity rather than volume. Elegant and nuanced, the 2019 delivers the goods. A rush of red/purplish fruit, dried herbs, rose petal and mint builds into the persistent finish.

Dark berry and mahogany aromas prove rich and thick but not overripe on the nose of this bottling. There's a savory streak of leather and tobacco on the palate, where ripe blackberry juice flavors show most prominently.