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Paul Hobbs Beckstoffer To Kalon 2010
HED88510
75 cl
14.5%
£400.00
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Paul Hobbs sources this Cabernet Sauvignon from the Beckstoffer-owned part of To Kalon in Oakville, a vineyard first planted by Hamilton Crabb in the 1860s. Reviewing the 2010 in December 2012, Wine Advocate found blue and black fruit, exotic spice, tar, smoke and violets in a weighty, brooding style, and called it the essence of To Kalon. Wine Spectator in 2013 described a seamless, pure wine with dark berry, currant and wild berry flavours and a fleshy texture. Braised short ribs.
95
Vinous
Saturated full ruby. Bright aromas of cassis, black cherry, menthol and mocha are complicated by subtle soil and spice tones. Wonderfully plush, seamless wine with terrific inner-mouth energy, clarity and peppery grip to its flavors of dark fruits, minerals, flowers and spices. The gripping tannins still need time to be absorbed. This highly complex, very long wine is quite claret-like in its refined grain, density without weight, savory character and finishing lift. Paul Hobbs told me that 2010 is not a growing season that he remembers fondly, noting "the wrestle we had to do with the grapes due to lots of cool weather." This was his only vintage of To Kalon that did not need any acidification, but he added that both the 2000 and 1999 vintages required very little. He describes this wine as Barishnikov-like, while the '09, a wine that he also calls one of his favorite vintages, is a bit chunkier, "like a linebacker." From a fairly small crop of 2.8 tons per acre.Stephen Tanzer1st May 2020