Hayfork Lewelling Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate 93 points - Sporting a deep garnet-purple color, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Llewelling Ranch reveals warm black plums, black cherries and mulberries notes with touches of eucalyptus, cigar box, tapenade and truffles. Medium to full-bodied with impressive intensity and a pleasantly chewy frame, it finishes on a lingering savory note..December/2017

Jeb Dunnuck 94 points - Leading off the two 2015s, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Lewelling Ranch is the normal blend of 95% Cabernet and 5% Petit Verdot that spent 20 months in 70% new French oak. It has beautiful purity and elegance as well as perfumed notes of cassis, plums, spring flowers and chocolate. I love its purity of fruit and this layered, pretty, seamless 2015 is already impossible to resist, yet has 15+ years of prime drinking to go. There’s 730 cases and it’s well worth seeking out..December/2017

Pairs well with hard aged cheeses, spicy lamb stew or a blue cheese burger

Haley Wight represents the seventh generation of one of St. Helena’s oldest and most established wine families. Wight makes rich, sumptuous Cabernets from her family’s Lewelling Ranch, which lies in the heart of St. Helena. -From Napa and Sonoma: The 2017 Summer Update (Aug 2017) by Antonio Galloni