Fait-Main Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Las Piedras
Tasted 15 January 2023
Napa Valley · St. Helena
Over four years since my last sampling this, the '16 FM LPV has gone from a high-rider taut teaser to a lush, plush, and gurgling gush of muddled blackberries and choc-o-late silkiness. If you know Benoit, then this…
This was an especially ripe and ready showing. Deep and dark plum, black cherry, blackberry, smoke, wet tobacco, and slate notes are delivered in balanced but gushing and plush waves of chewy fruit…
Plum skin, unripe berries, wild blackberry, and tart cherry all scream young Bordeaux, with the acid and structure really biting down on the flavors' attempts to expand. There is power here as well.…
