The potentially perfect opaque purple-colored 1997 Cabernet Sauvignon Wedding Vineyard (400 cases of 100% Cabernet Sauvignon) is made from 27-year-old vines and is aged in 100% new French Taransaud barrels. This prodigious Cabernet Sauvignon has only gotten better since my tasting last year. The finest Cabernet I have tasted from Fisher it represents a California interpretation of La Mission Haut-Brion.

A challenging wine--at times massive rich and detailed--but also quite leathery. It definitely requires patience but it's packed with layers of earthy currant mineral and sage finishing with thick mouth-coating tannins. Best from 2003 through 2014. 440 cases made. -JL