The Debate Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Missouri Hopper Vineyard
Tasted 15 March 2017
California · Napa Valley
PnP was just a little tight, but still displaying some really unctuous dark red and black fruit notes. Black and red raspberry, black cherry liqueur, currant, a little spice and earth, vanilla, and chocolate chunk.
A captivating bottle of wine. Balanced and exquisitely focused, while still delivering a beautifully concentrated core of black fruit. Signature To Kalon, with powerfully mouth-couting waves of…
Much improved from my last bottle. Some old world restraint here (which is indicative of Hoefliger's style), but some nice dark berry and currant flavors that kept me coming back for another sip.…
Much better than the 2012 Debate Crane I had recently, this 2013 had a somewhat older-school hybrid profile that displayed both cedar-laced red fruit and some dark black soil characteristics. Much…
