This wine was made with 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Malbec and 4% Petit Verdot. It had a 100% wild ferment with 100% whole berry and matured in French oak for 18 months (62% new). With full disclosure, this 2014 Tom...
This wine was made with 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Malbec and 4% Petit Verdot. It had a 100% wild ferment with 100% whole berry and matured in French oak for 18 months (62% new). With full disclosure, this 2014 Tom Cullity Cabernet Sauvignon Malbec was and still is my favorite vintage, and each year it expands in its effortless grace and beauty. It is a ripping wine, the clearest picture through four lenses (season, vineyard, producer, region) that I can conceive of. You get raspberry leaf tea, brine, nori, sun-dried kelp, cassis, bramble, tobacco leaf (both fresh and chewing) and black olives in brine, and the tannins are fully embedded into the fruit. Its seamless, finely milled and embossed even. Excellent, excellent, excellent. - Erin Larkin