Peter Michael Cabernet Sauvignon Les Pavots Knights Valley 2019 1500ml

Les Pavots is the flagship red of Peter Michael Winery, a Bordeaux-style blend from the estate's volcanic mountain slopes in Knights Valley, named for the wild poppies that grow there. The 2019 is one of its finest recent vintages, earning 99 points from James Suckling and 98 from Jeb Dunnuck. The blend is 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Merlot, 14% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot. Perfumed with blackberry, black cherry, raspberry and pine cone, it adds graphite, currant, boysenberry and fresh leather on a full-bodied, creamy palate with firm, velvety, tight-grained tannins. In 1.5-liter magnum it will age slowly; open from 2026 onward and enjoy over the next two decades.