2018 MacDonald Vineyards To-Kalon Cabernet - 750ml
2018 MacDonald Vineyards To-Kalon Cabernet - 750ml
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2018 MacDonald Vineyards To-Kalon Cabernet - 750ml

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2018 MacDonald Vineyards To-Kalon Cabernet - 98 pts!
MacDonald To-Kalon Cabernet MacDonald is a collaboration between brothers Alex and Graeme MacDonald. And though the label is new, their debut vintage was a 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon & their family roots in Napa go back to 1954. That was the year their great-grandparents bought a modest retirement property in Oakville that came with a vineyard called To-Kalon. After replanting the vineyard, the couple started selling grapes to Robert Mondavi, who used them first for his family's Charles Krug wines, then for his own Robert Mondavi label.

Today To-Kalon is considered one of the most outstanding terroirs in Napa Valley, and many of Napa's most prestigious wines used grapes sourced from To-Kalon. The first vintages of MacDonald received highly complimentary reviews. Vinous wrote this about the 2010: in this vintage, the first commercial release, brothers Alex and Graeme MacDonald made a wine that has no problem sitting alongside Napa Valley's long established stars. This is a fabulous showing.

 

         

Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage 2018
Rating 98 WS 
Bottle Size 750 ml
Bottle Quantity 1
Country USA
Region California
Location North Coast
Producer MacDonald
Color Red
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Wine Spectator 98 WS - This is pumping along nicely, with a torrent of cassis and crushed plum fruit at first, followed quickly by a second wave of steeped blackberry and boysenberry flavors. Underneath there's a well-embedded singed alder note and a steady tug of warm, gravelly earth. Racy licorice snap and sassafras notes chime through the finish, adding more energy to what is already an impressively terroir-driven wine.
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Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage 2018
Rating 98 WS
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French Oak 
Style
Cabernet 
Owners
Alex & Graeme Macdonald & Family
Region North Coast
Location Oakville
Producer MacDonald Vineyards
Winemaker
Graeme MacDonald
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500 cases (approx)
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