2020 Leonetti Cabernet Sauvignon Walla Walla Valley

Dark and imposing, the 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon unfurls in the glass with an intense blend of exotic spice, incense, dried orange peel and mentholated blackberries. This flows like fine silk draped across the palate—seamless and refined, with polished red fruits and rosy inner florals. It's only in the finish that the 2020 flexes its structural muscle, leaving the senses clenched with saturating tannins as a bitter wild berry concentration slowly fades. This dramatic Cabernet Sauvignon will pay dividends in the cellar.

The 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon checks in as 82% Cabernet Sauvignon and 6% each of Malbec, Petit Verdot, and Cabernet Franc from a mix of sites in the heart of the Walla Walla Valley. Its dense purple/plum color is followed by beautiful bouquet of pure cassis, leafy tobacco, chocolate, spicy oak, and graphite. This carries to a powerful, concentrated, burly, yet incredibly well-balanced Cabernet with a great mid-palate, a layered, building, powerful texture, beautiful tannins, and outstanding length. This blockbuster, serious, age-worthy beauty needs 3-5 years of bottle age (it will probably take a decade to hit maturity) and will have 2-3 decades of longevity.