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The 2017 Db4 checks in as a blend of 73% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. It has a ripe, rounded, nicely textured style as well as lots of blackcurrants, toasted spices, graphite, and tobacco aromas, building tannins, beautiful mid-palate depth, and a great finish.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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The 2017 DB 4 is bold, plush and absolutely delicious. A generous, inviting red, the DB4 is a gorgeous second wine that captures all the signatures of the house style at an accessible price. Blood orange, spice, mint and rose petal add lovely aromatic top notes to a core of ripe red and purplish berry fruit. The tannins are a bit firm - as is typical of the year - but otherwise, the 2017 is impeccably balanced and very nicely done.
The blend this year is 73% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot. It was aged in French oak, 79% new, and bottled in July 2019. Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2017 Proprietary Red DB4 strolls nonchalantly out of the glass with soft-spoken scents of baked plums, blueberry compote and black currant cordial plus wafts of potpourri, fragrant earth, cinnamon stick and tilled soil. Medium to full-bodied, the palate has compelling mid-palate weight with bags of black fruit preserves and a sturdy frame of grainy tannins, finishing with lovely freshness. 680 cases were made.
About the producer
Founded by Don Bryant in 1986, Bryant Estate is built around a 13-acre vineyard rising from 900 to 1,200 feet on Pritchard Hill. Now led by Bettina Bryant, its acclaimed Bryant Family Vineyard is regarded as one of Napa Valley’s benchmark Cabernet Sauvignons.