Schrader RBS Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard Oakville 2009 750ml

The RBS bottling from Schrader Cellars is pure clone 337 Cabernet Sauvignon from the B1 and B2 blocks of Andy Beckstoffer's To Kalon Vineyard in Oakville, one of Napa Valley's most famous sites. In 2009, fruit from the B2 block was added for the first time, and winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown credited it with much of the wine's personality. Vinous described the 2009 as dark, plush and inviting, with more inner focus and minerality than its siblings, plus graphite, smoke, tar and licorice on an intense, juicy finish that grows more explosive in the glass. Deeply extracted with dense, ripe tannins, it is now fully in its drinking window and should hold for years.