All three Châteauneuf cuvées from Christophe Sabon are exemplary

poached plum and dark cherry scents

and it was the great producers that excelled that year

Patience will be required

A subdued nose only grudgingly reveals the cool and airy red and dark currant

Diamond Creek, Red Rock Terrace other_regions All three Châteauneuf cuvées fromThe 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Red Rock Terrace comes from seven acres of the 20 acre vineyard (whereas the Gravelly Meadow emerges from five acres). The terroir is iron rich, red, rocky soil in contrast to the light, gravelly, ashy soils of the Gravelly Meadow. Super intense, rich, more backward and powerful than the Gravelly Meadow, this dense purple wine offers up notes of beef blood, crme de cassis, blackberry, licorice and earth. Full bodied,