Dappled Limited Release Tradition Cabernets 2024

“The blend is 68% Cab Sav and 32% Cab Franc with 20% whole bunches included in the ferment. This is the most lifted and fragrant Cabernets I have made so far! Ultra perfumed with cassis and violets jumping from the glass. The palate is again pure fruit; black currant juice with long fresh acidity makes this wine very light on its feet. Elegant and way too drinkable!” – Dappled Wines

Blueberry, blackberry, a little grassy, but also perfumed with floral things, along with tobacco and black olive. It’s medium-bodied, crisp and black fruited, something of a tomato and olive tang to it, grainy tannin grip is firm but sure, and the finish is saline, savoury and loaded with black olive and dried herb. Perhaps a little tangy, but very nice and certainly worthy of a little time in the cellar to show its best. 

93 pts, Gary Walsh, The Wine Front