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2014 Beckstoffer To Kalon

Our flagship 2014 Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard, offers incredible aromas and flavors of blue and black fruit with classic Cabernet nuances of tobacco leaf, graphite, and savory toast. A timeless wine sourced from our original blocks in the Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard, the 2014 Schrader is supremely rich and dense, with rapturous texture, firm structure, and an astonishingly long finish.

  • Vintage 2014
  • Vineyard Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard
  • Appellation Oakville, Napa Valley
  • Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Clone Clone 4, Block C2
  • Cooperage Aged 20 months in rare Darnajou French oak barrels
  • Winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown

  • Tasting Notes

    Our flagship Cabernet, this voluminous wine offers incredible aromas and flavors of blue and black fruit with classic Cabernet nuances of tobacco leaf, graphite, and savory toast. A timeless wine sourced from our original blocks in the Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard, the 2014 Schrader is supremely rich and dense, with rapturous texture, firm structure, and an astonishingly long finish.

  • Accolades

    99 Pts. "Seductive aromas of crushed berries, wet earth, leaves, mushrooms and violets. Wow. Full body, ultra-fine tannins and a super depth of fruit and intensity. Shows power with finesse. This needs three to four years before it will show its true greatness." — James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com

    95 Pts. "The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon, which is clone 4 from the To Kalon vineyard is aged in 75% new Darnajou and 25% new Taransaud. This is a fruit-forward, opaque purple wine, like its siblings, with notes of creosote, licorice, charcoal, blackcurrants and blackberries. It is full-bodied, but round and succulent. It ended up at 14.5% natural alcohol. Drink it over the next 15-20 years." — Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate

    93 Pts. "A bold, rich, assertive style that packs in lots of flavor, from spicy oak to mocha and espresso notes, all of which bolster the core of dark berry, licorice, vanilla bean and spice. Ends with full-blown, integrated tannins. Best from 2020 through 2034." — James Laube, Wine Spectator

  • Vineyard

    First planted in 1868 by viticultural and winemaking icon Hamilton Crabb, To Kalon Vineyard® has long been regarded as the source of Napa Valley's finest Cabernet Sauvignon grapes. Within the prime vineyard blocks, an alluvial fan provides excellent and varied mineral deposits, and the rich soils are filled with marine sediment that gives our wines their distinctive profiles. The vines receive full sun and optimal heat during the day and are cooled by marine fog at night. These conditions allow the Cabernet Sauvignon planted in the vineyard to display its own unique character, and this celebration of individuality is the essence of Schrader ®.

  • Vintage

    While it was the third consecutive year marked by limited rainfall, the 2014 Vintage offered a perfectly temperate growing season characterized by long, moderate days and cool, clear nights. We began the year with warm spring conditions that gave way to an early budbreak and the consistent, dry weather afforded an optimal fruit set of small berries with incredible concentration. Crop yields were down a bit from 2013, but the quality was magnificent. It was a textbook growing season, every winemaker's dream.

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