"The 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Reserve is produced from what the estate often believed was the best parcel of hillside Cabernet Sauvignon. It possesses a more saturated ruby/purple color along with beautiful black currant and black cherry fruit nicely backed up by dusty, loamy soil notes. There is excellent sweetness on the attack, medium to full body, a long, pure, ripe finish revealing considerable tannins, and not a hard edge to be found. It is a beauty of elegance and power." -Robert Parker
Wine Enthusiast
WE95
"A wonderfully smooth, dry, complex young Cabernet, and yes, the tannins have that famous Rutherford dust. The wine is the opposite of a fruit bomb, with moderate alcohol and interesting flavors of herbs, cherries, blackberries and spicy sandalwood."
