2021 Zeitgeist Cabernet Sauvignon Sleeping Lady Vineyard
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The only wine from Williams that's fermented all in barrels, the 2021 Cabernet Franc Sleeping Lady Vineyard is another truly sensation wine from this team. Compared to the Cabernet Sauvignon releases, it stays more focused and chiseled, with medium to full-bodied richness as well as sensational levels of purity in its redcurrants, spring flowers, graphite, and forest floor-like aromatics and flavors. As with the other releases from Williams, it has riveting purity, flawless balance, and a gorgeous finish. Enjoy bottles over the coming two decades.
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Jeb Dunnuck
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The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Sleeping Lady Vineyard is a big, rich wine, as all of these wines are, and yet it has tons of character. Dark plum, mocha, new leather, spice and lavender are amplified by the concentration of a year marked by small berries and low yields. This is an especially potent, dark expression of Sleeping Lady, but it works.
The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Sleeping Lady Vineyard offers more density and shows the more structured, burly style of the vintage (as well as this site) nicely. Black and blue fruits, crushed stone, graphite, and leafy tobacco notes give way to a full-bodied, concentrated 2021 with building tannins, a great mid-palate, and outstanding length. It's going to demand bottle age but is a brilliant wine.