Odette Estate Winery Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon is gorgeous with classic Stags leap purity and finesse in its cassis and black raspberry fruits as well as chalky minerality, flowers, and spicy, graphite-like notes. Full-bodied, concentrated, and pure on the palate, it has fine tannins, beautiful balance, and a great finish. It's concentrated, but this is more about finesse and elegance.

The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate is a gorgeous wine done in the large-scale style favored by the estate. Inky dark fruit, chocolate, new leather, spice, espresso, menthol and copious new oak are all dialed up. As always, the Odette Cabernet is more a wine of style than of place, but its beauty is pretty undeniable. Dense and rich on the close, the 2021 is impossible to ignore.

Odette's 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate matured for 20 months in 75% new French oak, leaving it to boast scents of cassis, raspberry, vanilla and cedar. It's medium to full-bodied, slightly coarse, open-knit and roughly textured but could improve with a few years of aging.