Caterwaul Cabernet Sauvignon 2023 750ml

Description

Winemaker Notes

#51 Wine Spectator Top 100 of 2025

Great vintages are often signaled early in a wine’s life. Mere weeks into existence, the richness, balance and power of 2023 was clear. Carefully sourced Napa Valley vineyards produced great dividends with a perfect marriage of round tannin and supple fruit. Brilliant scarlet red on the rim, denoting a pronounced natural acidity, the wine quickly finds depth in an opaque, violet hue. A rich nose of crushed minerals and red/black berry fruit fills the glass, framed by dusky, dark violets. Complexity on the initial palate girds the expectation of an unbridled wine. Like gentle giant, this wine clearly has a powerful build but conveys a restrained intensity. Soft tannins marked by toasty oak and a wide frame of confit red and purple fruits mark the midpalate. Freshness extends the long finish. There is something here for everyone, and in abundance.

Professional Ratings

• 93Jeb Dunnuck

  Juicy red and black currants, plums, earthy herbs, and chocolate all shine in the 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley, a medium to full-bodied, round, and lush 2023 with sweet tannins and a great finish. Napa needs more wines like this, and it’s well worth seeking out.

• 93Robert Parker’s Wine AdvocateAssuming pricing remains stable, Caterwaul’s 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley—a 14,000-case blend this year—should remain one of the valley’s greatest values. Boasting wonderful purity of fruit—black cherries and cassis—plus floral-herbal nuances, it’s full-bodied, rich and velvety, maybe a bit open-knit but flavorful and structured, with a lasting finish.

  Barrel Sample: 91-93

• 92Wine Spectator

  A rock-solid Cab, offering a steady beam of warmed cassis and cherry reduction notes laced with a loamy accent to keep everything grounded. Dark tobacco and a flash of walnut husk add range through the finish, which hasn’t fully unwound just yet.

• 91Vinous

  The 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley) is beautiful. Sensual, open-knit and inviting, the 2022 has so much to offer. Crushed flowers, sweet red-toned fruit, white pepper and spice are very nicely lifted. This mid-weight, beautifully pliant Cabernet will be impossible to resist in its youth. Stylistically, the Napa Valley Cabernet feels just a touch riper than the other wines in the range.