Tesseron, Pym Rae Vintage:2018

Tesseron, Pym Rae Vintage:2018This is packed, offering a core of steeped black currant, plum sauce and blackberry reduction that plays wonderfully with a set of sweet bay, chestnut leaf and dried violet aromatics. Underneath is support in the form of a smoldering cast iron girder as additional singed alder and walnut husk accents filter through. Admirably captures the terroir driven density of this benchmark vintage. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2028

spice and whiff of the sauvage

51% Cabernet Sauvignon

5-hectare plot of 65+-year-old vines at the top of the Paje vineyard

and a long

While it is difficult to find

“Ultimately no one really noticed

which is perfectly balanced

powerful and serious larger-scaled flavors are overtly muscular though the exceptionally tannic and somewhat tough finish disrupts the balance

41 ha parcel of vines planted in 1952)

20% Cabernet Franc and the rest Cabernet Sauvignon is the product of a cool year in Napa

It brings notes of chocolate and spice

Excellent length to go with the pure