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94+ JG.
"The 2014 Stony Hill Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon is the most complete example of this varietal that I have yet tasted from the winery, but as the vines only went in the ground in 2004, things are only going to get better as the vine continue to age. This is pretty ripe by Mike Chelini’s standards, coming in at an even fourteen percent octane and offering up a superb, old school bouquet of cherries, a touch of currant, sweet tobacco leaf, complex soil tones, incipient notes of cigar smoke and a lovely topnote of allspice. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, complex and beautifully balanced, with a rock solid core, excellent soil signature, ripe, well-integrated tannins and a long, tangy and nascently complex finish. Great juice in the making." John Gilman, View From the Cellar, Jul/Aug 2017, Issue #70 |