Lot 543
2021 Oak Knoll District Cabernet Sauvignon

Over $100/bottle under the original label

Lot 543 comes to us from a historic blue-chip winery’s reserve program that specializes in single-vineyard and single-block expressions. This 100% Cabernet Sauvignon is one of the crown jewels in their award-winning lineup – a sublimely elegant Napa Cab with a true Old-World soul. The series regularly fetches scores in the 90s from the top critics year over year, but the 2021 vintage featured an exceptional level of depth and concentration to the elegance for which Oak Knoll is renowned.

This Cab is dark on the pour, with a nose of black cherries, graphite, crushed stone, eucalyptus, and menthol. On the palate, this wine wears its age well, with a terroir-focused presentation of black currants, wet gravel, leather, and clay dust set within incredible structure and firm acidity that suggests so much more is yet to come. The finish is long and refined, where dry, perfectly integrated tannins reveal further layers of graphite and black cherries evolving into plum and cassis, all elegantly wrapped in vanilla blossoms.