2005 Hundred Acre Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Deep Time Vineyard RP--96--98

Robert Parker: 96--98 Points
The 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon Deep Time, which will be aged somewhere between 36 and 40 months in 100% new oak, is his study in how oak integrates over time and how a Cabernet Sauvignon can, even after two years, continue to concentrate the same way a chef reduces a stock. This is a beautifully pure, rich, complex, cedary black currant wine with the oak well-concealed, and soft tannins. A silky wine, made in a flamboyant style that could be a hypothetical blend of La Mission Haut-Brion, Mouton-Rothschild, and a great vintage of Le Pin, it should drink beautifully for 10-15 years.