93 points Jonathan Cristaldi (Decanter): "From winemaker, Sam Kaplan the 2020 NVD offers a reserved bouquet of red liquorice, blackberry, and cedarwood. Plush, full-bodied, and packed with silky ripe, sweet black fruit preserves and loads of dark chocolate. The tannins are quite grainy and need more time to thread together. But there's plenty of pleasure to be had in this opulent red. Drinking Window: 2023-2030. (7/6/23)"
93 points CellarTracker.com community score.
91 points Joe Czerwinski (Wine Advocate): "The 2020 NVD Cabernet Sauvignon offers up cedary aromas and notes of red berries and cherries. It's medium-bodied and rather open-knit on the palate, maybe even a touch coarse in texture, with a touch of astringency on the finish. I didn't pick up any evidence of smoke taint, but it's clearly not as strong an effort as the forthcoming 2021. Drink: 2024-2040. (Jun 2023)"
91 points Lisa Perrotti-Brown (The Wine Independent): "The 2020 Arkenstone NVD Cabernet Sauvignon is deep garnet-purple in color. It sails out of the glass with fantastically spicy notes, over a core of plum preserves, blueberry compote, and dark chocolate, with wafts of garrigue and redcurrant jelly. The medium to full-bodied palate is packed with black fruit preserves, with an exotic spicy undercurrent and chewy tannins, leading to an earthy finish. Only fruit picked between the 18th and 25th September, before the Glass fire, was used. This gave about a third of the normal production level. Alcohol 14.8%. Drink: 2023-2035. (4/13/23)"
93 points CellarTracker.com community score.
91 points Joe Czerwinski (Wine Advocate): "The 2020 NVD Cabernet Sauvignon offers up cedary aromas and notes of red berries and cherries. It's medium-bodied and rather open-knit on the palate, maybe even a touch coarse in texture, with a touch of astringency on the finish. I didn't pick up any evidence of smoke taint, but it's clearly not as strong an effort as the forthcoming 2021. Drink: 2024-2040. (Jun 2023)"
91 points Lisa Perrotti-Brown (The Wine Independent): "The 2020 Arkenstone NVD Cabernet Sauvignon is deep garnet-purple in color. It sails out of the glass with fantastically spicy notes, over a core of plum preserves, blueberry compote, and dark chocolate, with wafts of garrigue and redcurrant jelly. The medium to full-bodied palate is packed with black fruit preserves, with an exotic spicy undercurrent and chewy tannins, leading to an earthy finish. Only fruit picked between the 18th and 25th September, before the Glass fire, was used. This gave about a third of the normal production level. Alcohol 14.8%. Drink: 2023-2035. (4/13/23)"
| Product SKU | 355277 |
| Producer | Arkenstone |
| Country | United States |
| Region | California |
| SubRegion | Napa Valley |
| Varietal | Cabernet Sauvignon |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Size | 750ml |
| Color | Red |
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