2023 Carter Cellars Beckstoffer Las Piedras ‘La Verdad’ Cabernet Sauvignon

JD96-99 The 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard La Verdad comes from thinner, rockier soils, and I always find a more Pauillac-like structure and character in this cuvée. Smoky currants, lead pencil, graphite, and crushed stone all define the aromatics, and it’s full-bodied on the palate, with beautiful overall balance, a layered, deep, concentrated mid-palate, and substantial tannins. It has the fruit to offer pleasure in its youth, yet this is one where the cellar will be your friend.
Estate Notes: One of our most highly sought after wines, the 2023 ‘La Verdad’ is low production wine from our original block of stressed vines on the Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard. Inky and dark in the glass, the nose emits a show stopping rush of mouth-watering blueberry and black fruits. The first taste is a pleasurable attack on the senses, bursting with concentrated dark black and blue fruits, mixed with finely crushed gravel and earth. A concentrated mid-palate reveals finely integrated tannins that lift the overall back bone of the wine and ends with a textured and endless fruit driven finish.