The 1998 Cabernet Sauvignon Wight Vineyard boasts a saturated opaque ruby/purple color as well as a gorgeous bouquet of cassis fruit intermixed with oak tobacco and licorice. This remarkable 1998 possesses full body terrific intensity a velvety texture and a long concentrated finish. Although the tannin is substantial it is sweet. This 1998 can be drunk now or cellared for 15 years. It is a sleeper of the vintage.This wine emerges from the lower slopes of Napa's Spring Mountain.

Intriguing touches of sandalwood and forest-floor spice sit atop more conventional elements of cream cassis and vanilla in the complex if slightly underplayed aromas of this one and things run true to billing on the palate where the wine's mildly woodsy fruit flavors are more measured than they are dramatic. Firmed by fine-grained tannins and thus avoiding the need of extended aging the wine gets by on composition as much as power...