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Sourced from the warm Curicó Valley, this wine is bursting with ripe black fruit, dark chocolate, and spice, all wrapped in velvety tannins. Crafted by Valdivieso’s innovative Caballo Loco project, this Grand Cru captures the essence of its terroir while delivering depth, complexity, and a long, satisfying finish. 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And in this Caballo the franc offers outstanding aromas of tobacco and herbs, spices and red fruit. The palate is nervy and delicious, with fine, firm tannins, and red fruit and spice flavors, along with some mint. 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The cooler 2021 vintage lends freshness and a nervy tension to the palate, with minty fruit, graphite, dark chocolate and white pepper, plus spice from two years in barrel. Firm but fine tannins and a long finish. 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Taste the Pahlmeyer Jayson 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon and you’d have to say mission accomplished. The establishment of his own vineyard in the late 1990s in Atlas Peak in eastern Napa Valley from where the fruit for the Jayson comes, was a game-changer. 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Fruit-driven, but with excellent balance, the layers of black berry fruits are intermingled with warm spices, blueberry jam cherry liqueur, minerals and a lift of raspberries, a signature of many of the finest Napa Valley Cabernets in this cool vintage. Medium bodied with an impressive structure, it’s just coming into its drinking window. The quality of fruit, polished tannins, and firm acidity will enable it to develop over the coming decade. If you plan to drink it now, decant it for a couple of hours or let it breathe in the bottle for 4-5 hours and serve with red meats, roasted Mediterranean vegetables, hard cheeses and other full-flavoured foods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Producer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePahlmeyer has gone from being one man’s dream to being one of the finest producers of Cabernet Sauvignon in Napa Valley. 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