2023 HALL Kathryn Hall Cabernet Sauvignon with a Gift Box

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Jeb Dunnuck

A blend of multiple sites, the 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon Kathryn Hall shows a saturated purple hue and offers smoky red and black fruits, graphite, tobacco, espresso roast, and chocolate. This puppy is full-bodied and has a deep, rich, opulent mouthfeel, remarkable purity, ripe, polished, chalky tannins, and a great finish. It's a powerful blockbuster styled beauty that brings the goods and will drink well over the coming 20-30 years. Drink 2025-2055.

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The Wine Palate, Lisa Perrotti-Brown

Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon Kathryn Hall (98% Cabernet Sauvignon and 2% Merlot) sashays out with fragrant notes of violets, dried mint, star anise, and forest floor, leading to a core of blackcurrant pastilles and boysenberry preserves, plus a hint of Sichuan pepper. The full-bodied palate is plump yet energetic with a lively backbone and fine-grained tannins, finishing with a minerally lift. Nearly 50% of the fruit comes from Sacrashe Vineyard this year.

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Wine Spectator, James Molesworth

Dense and winey, this takes the extracted approach to deliver a muscular wave of black currant, blackberry and boysenberry paste flavors, all melded with dark licorice and tar through the well-structured finish. Alder and loam underscore the finish. This sits squarely and self-assuredly in the not-shy style.

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The Wine Advocate, Joe Czerwinski

Black cherries and cassis join on the nose of the 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon Kathryn Hall, blended of fruit from a few sites and aged 22 months in 70% new French oak. The cedary oak nicely frames the bold fruit, seemingly giving this full-bodied wine needed structure, with some mocha overtones lingering on the finish.