2017 Coombsville Cabernet Sauvignon
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From the cooler southern end of the valley, the 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Coombsville offers a vibrant, pure style in its blue and black fruits, sappy herbs, sagebrush, lead pencil, and rocky minerality. It's beautiful on the palate as well, with a tight, vibrant, concentrated style, good acidity, and a focused texture that opens up with time in the glass. Hide bottles for 4-5 years and it will keep for 20-25 years.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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The 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Coombsville is understated, classy and super-polished. Graphite, black cherry, menthol, licorice and grilled herbs come together in a nuanced, beautifully expressive Cabernet that delivers the goods. A range of dark fruit, graphite, espresso, licorice, graphite, lavender and spice gradually reveal themselves, but the 2017 needs at least a few years in bottle to be at its best.
The 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Coombsville pulses with all of the energy that make Coombsville Cabernets so distinctive. Inky and resonant on the palate, the 2017 has so much to offer. Grilled herb, chocolate, menthol, sage and crème de cassis all build into the huge, potent finish. The 2017 is shaping up very nicely.
The barrel sample of 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Coombsville has a very deep garnet-purple color and boldly springs from the glass with notes of crushed redcurrants, kirsch and cassis plus hints of mossy bark, pencil lead and beef drippings with a touch of tobacco. Firm, grainy and fresh, the medium-bodied palate packs in a lot of red and black fruit layers with loads of earthy nuances and a solid backbone of grainy tannins, finishing long with an herbal lift.
About the producer
Favia is the personal project of cult winemaker Andy Erickson and leading viticulturalist and winemaker Annie Favia. Working in Coombsville and Oakville, they craft single-site, elegant expressions of top Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc that are some of the valley’s highest-rated.