Description
98
Jeb Dunnuck
Review Date: 02/2023
Coming from a site just outside of St. Helena, the 2019 Cappella is a deep, powerful, yet incredibly elegant Cabernet Sauvignon-dominated release offering lots of red and black fruits, full-bodied richness, incredibly complex notes of leafy herbs, spring flowers, green tobacco, and camphor, ultra-fine tannins, and a great, great finish. Few wines marry this level of richness with such a sense of elegance and purity. As with most 2019s, it already offers pleasure, yet do your best to give bottles 3-5 years. It will have 20-25 years of overall longevity.
97
Vinous
Review Date: 10/2022
The 2019 Cappella is brooding in demeanor, almost uncharacteristically so. Dark and potent, with huge tannins, the 2019 is a behemoth. Licorice, gravel, crushed rocks, lavender and spice play off a core of inky blue/purplish fruit. This is a tremendous showing from a wine that usually gives the impression of being pretty approachable young. (AG)
97
Wine Spectator
Review Date: 11/2023
A broad-shouldered, nicely toasty style, with a deep well of black currant, warmed cassis and fig paste at the core, laced liberally with cast iron, dark tobacco and warm earth notes. This is framed by singed cedar and alder accents through the slightly rumbling finish, where an espresso crema accent helps contrast that very dense core of fruit. Despite all its heft, this has cut on the finish. Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. *Collectible* (JM)
95
Wine Advocate
Review Date: 03/2024
Abreu’s 2019 Cappella Proprietary Red isn’t a standout the way it was in 2018, but it remains a marvelous wine, bursting with cassis and plum and layered with oak-derived spice and vanilla shadings. It’s full-bodied and concentrated, rich and velvety, perhaps just a bit warm on the lingering finish. (JC)
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