Schrader CCS Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard 2012 750ml

Fred Schrader's single-vineyard Cabernets from Andy Beckstoffer's To Kalon Vineyard in Oakville are among Napa's most collected wines, and the CCS bottling is built from Clone 4 Cabernet Sauvignon. The 2012 vintage, a generous, even growing season after two cool years, produced lush, ripe wines, and this one earned a perfect 100 points from Robert Parker of Wine Advocate. Aged 20 months in new French oak, it is inky purple with spring flowers, blueberry, blackberry and cassis, a touch of toast and graphite, and a full, multidimensional palate. Parker called it "fabulously open, sexy and a total thrill." Drinking well now, it should hold for another 10 to 15 years.