2016 Cabernet Sauvignon

The 2016 Crown Point Cabernet Sauvignon is a full, rich, and beautiful wine that beckons both the nose and palate with a sense of textural generosity and aromatic complexity. Blue and black fruits are beautifully woven through its powerful core of minerality, accented by subtle notes of cocoa & toasted spices. This wine possesses an energy and freshness that indicates a long life ahead of it. Recommended drinking window: now through 2036.

100% Estate Grown, Produced & Bottled

92% Cabernet Sauvignon / 3% Merlot / 2% Petit Verdot / 2% Cabernet Franc / 1% Malbec

96-98 Points from Jeb Dunnuck

Tasted as a barrel sample the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon was aged 26 months in new French oak. It offers a slightly purer bouquet of crème de cassis, lead pencil shavings, violets, and classy oak. As with the Estate Selection, it's deep, beautifully concentrated, and pure, with rocking tannin quality and a big finish. It's certainly going to be up with the finest Cabernet Sauvignons to ever come out of Santa Barbara County.

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THE CROWN POINT TWO-PACK
2x750ml of 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon packed in a wood box | Offered at $300

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6x750ml of 2014 Estate Selection packed in a wood box | Offered at $900

Cabernet Sauvignon Library

The 2015 Crown Point Cabernet Sauvignon is a sophisticated and elegant expression of the estate. Hallmark aromas of savory spices, ripe blackberry, black plum and dried violets anticipate a refined mouthfeel. This wine’s sense-of-place is expressed on the palate through a tightly woven core of black currant, graphite and cigar box notes framed by polished tannins.

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Saturated garnet in color, the aromatics of this wine point to freshly baked blackberry pie, plum preserves, toasted rye bread and slate. Voluptuous and full-bodied, this second release of Crown Point Cabernet Sauvignon is built around tannins wrapped in a blanket of glycerin- notably marked with the essences of cassis, graphite, scorched earth, and dark chocolate. Loaded with black and blue fruits, this wine combines finesse and power that swells across the palate in impressive fashion. It is a remarkable Cabernet Sauvignon that should evolve gracefully for 25+ years.

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The 2013 Crown Point Estate Cabernet Sauvignon is a powerful and exuberant example of what winemaker Adam Henkel calls “the greatest red wine grape in the world”. A pure expression of Cabernet Sauvignon, the nose shows hints of truffle, espresso, subtle charcoal, and cassis while the mouthfeel builds layers upon layers of extravagant richness with its notes of dark red fruits, toast and graphite. Full-bodied, with a tannin structure reminiscent of crushed velvet, it is a very young wine that should hit its prime in about 10 years (2025). Patience will be rewarded.

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