Levy McClellan, Cabernet Sauvignon Size:3x750ml

Levy McClellan, Cabernet Sauvignon Size:3x750mlThe 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon has a dense purple color and rugged structural components of high tannin, massive extract and loads of blackberry, blueberry and cassis fruit along with some truffle and forest floor. It is stacked and packed, so to speak, full bodied, and essentially requires any prospective purchaser to exercise some discipline and forget it for 5 10 years. It is probably a 30 to 50 year wine where well stored, which is exactly what both

I'd pair this with braised meat or any dish involving precious truffles from Alba

5 hectares of the 20-hectare single vineyard

dullish red

yields a Barolo with uncommon complexity and volume

virtually cloudless five day period permitted patient and rigorous selection of fruit

lovely fruit and firm

There is however a lovely sense of underlying tension to the rich

The long aftertaste echoes fruit

Drippingly juicy

Dense and packed

perhaps Fonseca will serve you better this year

plum and cassis notes that really stick with you