The 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve from their Spring Mountain estate has a more saturated purple color, beautiful texture, loads of blueberry and blackcurrant fruit and a touch of spring flowers. This is clearly mountain, cool-climate Cabernet with full body, sweet tannin and impressive purity. This beautiful wine from Robert Keenan can be drunk now or cellared for 20 or more years. - Robert Parker

Like many growers in Napa Valley, Michael Keenan considers the maturity of the vines one key to the success of his 2013s. With 16 years in the ground, Keenan’s replanted vineyards grew a formidable cabernet in the vintage, a mountain wine that feels formal in its power, without any excesses in extract or alcohol. Keenan describes it as ‘professional’ power, like the powerful swings of a pro golfer that look breathtakingly easy. The tannins are in alignment from the moment it’s first poured, their firm coffee and cocoa notes hiding some of the fruit expression. A day later, the darker tones of mushrooms and tree bark have opened and lightened to scents of sage and madrone, a fragrance that embeds the Spring Mountain forest in the saturation of the fruit. Bold and supple, this is structured for long aging, but its beauty is accessible now with enough time in a decanter. (500 cases)