RP 98 · Robert Parker
Their first-growth terroir, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Lotus Vineyard is 95% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Petit Verdot. This looks like another potentially perfect wine with an incredible floral/violet-like nose interwoven with blueberries, blackberries and cassis. The vibrancy on the palate is rather remarkable given the wine’s great intensity, massive fruit and incredible length and richness. This is an otherworldly, rather surreal effort that will spend 25 months in 90% new French oak. They expect to produce about 300 cases of this wine.