2022 TOR ‘Black Magic’ Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville

JS98 Powerful, polished and impressive, showing great concentration and depth. A good portion of petit verdot adds even darker fruit to the majority of cabernet sauvignon. This offers dried blueberries, crushed blackberries, cocoa, graphite, minerals and dusky plums on muscular tannins that will carry it for decades. Full-bodied. Best after 2030.

WA96-98 A preliminary selection, still subject to some tweaking (or complete reassessment), the 2022 Black Magic features red berry-tinged fruit on the nose, while the full-bodied palate is rich and concentrated, with terrific length and silky tannins on the finish.