TASTING NOTES

Like the name suggests, King Kong Cabernet offers big, bold flavors and a dramatic finish. This is a particularly powerful wine. Rugged tannin structure and fragrant oak frames luscious flavors of black raspberries, blueberries and plums that are woven between notes of tobacco, incense, and baking spices. There is intensity to the fruit with vivid aromas and a generous, velvety palate that is weighted and complex as a result of this impressive vintage. The hint of floral and graphite that unfurls on the finish makes this Cabernet even more enticing.

California’s 2015 harvest featured great fruit development for Cabernet Sauvignon grapes. Sonoma gave us structure and ripe juicy fruit, while San Luis Obispo supplied floral notes and red fruit flavors.

VINTAGE NOTES

2015 delivered the fourth consecutive season of exceptional fruit quality in California. The year also saw an extremely early harvest. Warm spring conditions prompted early bud break and lack of rain throughout the year yielded light crops of highly concentrated fruit both in Sonoma and San Luis Obispo where the fruit for this wine comes from. Because the vintage offered so much depth and complexity, we were able to age much of the wine in new wood; 85% French oak and 15% Hungarian oak. This gives the wine extra power without losing any of the fruit nuances.