2015 Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard T6 3L

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Our 2015 Beckstoffer To Kalon T6 Cabernet Sauvignon 3L will be shipped in a Schrader Cellars wooden box.

The magic of clone 6 Cabernet is the spectacular ripeness we can achieve while maintaining optimal balance and proportion. Our super sexy 2015 Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard T6 offers luxuriant aromatics of red and black fruits, particularly just picked blackberries, with enticing notes of spice box, licorice and camphor. Everything to the limit, the profound intensity of this wine makes it a standout for the vintage.

• Vintage 2015
• Vineyard Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard
• Appellation Oakville, Napa Valley
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Clone Pure Clone 6
• Cooperage Aged 20 months in rare Darnajou French oak barrels
• Winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown

• Tasting Notes

  The magic of clone 6 Cabernet is the spectacular ripeness we can achieve while maintaining optimal balance and proportion. Our super sexy 2015 Schrader T6 offers luxuriant aromatics of red and black fruits, particularly just picked blackberries, with enticing notes of spice box, licorice and camphor. Everything to the limit, the profound intensity of this wine makes it a standout for the vintage.

• Accolades

  100 Pts. “Coming from the Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard, block D2 planted to clone 6, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon T6 sports a deep garnet-purple color and fantastically fragrant nose of Sichuan pepper, unsmoked cigars, potpourri, red loam and forest floor over a core of black forest cake, blackberry preserves and baked plums plus touches of dried Mediterranean herbs and smoked meats. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is full-on seductive, with wonderfully perfumed layers emerging through the frame of very finely knit yet firm tannins, finishing with epic length and depth.”
  — Lisa Perrotti-Brown, The Wine Advocate

  99 Pts. “Flirting with perfection, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard T6 comes all from clone 6 (there are less than 4 acres of clone 6 planted) and is always the last cuvee to be harvested. The 2015 has sensational purity as well as full-bodied, decadent notes of crème de cassis and black berry fruit, loads of mocha, scorched earth, spice and salty nuances, sweet, sweet tannin, not a hard edge to be found, and a blockbuster finish. Like all of Brown’s 2015s, it’s packed with fruit, yet its purity and balance are off the charts.”
  — Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com

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  Accolades

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  • 2015 Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard T6 3L — 100 WA, 99 JD, 93 WS

    100 Pts. “Coming from the Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard, block D2 planted to clone 6, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon T6 sports a deep garnet-purple color and fantastically fragrant nose of Sichuan pepper, unsmoked cigars, potpourri, red loam and forest floor over a core of black forest cake, blackberry preserves and baked plums plus touches of dried Mediterranean herbs and smoked meats. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is full-on seductive, with wonderfully perfumed layers emerging through the frame of very finely knit yet firm tannins, finishing with epic length and depth.”
    — Lisa Perrotti-Brown, The Wine Advocate

    99 Pts. “Flirting with perfection, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard T6 comes all from clone 6 (there are less than 4 acres of clone 6 planted) and is always the last cuvee to be harvested. The 2015 has sensational purity as well as full-bodied, decadent notes of crème de cassis and black berry fruit, loads of mocha, scorched earth, spice and salty nuances, sweet, sweet tannin, not a hard edge to be found, and a blockbuster finish. Like all of Brown’s 2015s, it’s packed with fruit, yet its purity and balance are off the charts.”
    — Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com

    93 Pts. “Plush, rich fruit rises to the top of this opulent offering, with layers of blackberry, dusty, loamy earth and spicy, cedary oak flavors, backed by a firm mix of tannins and spice. Best from 2021 through 2032.”
    — 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

  The 2015 vintage was radiant with abundant sunshine and consistent weather that yielded an excellent, albeit small, crop of optimally ripe grapes from all of our vineyard sources. Now resting in barrel, the young wines are showing their brilliance with boundless fruit character that harkens back to the acclaimed 2012 vintage. While it is the fruit profile that reflects these wines, it is the underlying firm structure of the 2015 Cabernets that distinguishes them from their siblings. As Thomas remarked, “fruit sweetness will allow these wines to drink really well while young, yet it’s their looming structure that will allow for long aging.”

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