2018 Fairchild, Stones No 2 Pritchard Hill Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, Bottle (750ml)

JD99 "Also from a site on Pritchard Hill, yet from a different parcel, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Stones No. 2 offers a more restrained, powerful style that carries loads of crème de cassis, toasted spiced, coffee, chocolate, and crushed rock-like minerality. Deep, full-bodied, and layered on the palate, this is a heavenly, gorgeously balanced beauty that has everything you could want from a mountain Cabernet." JD Jan 2021

RP97 "Deep purple-black colored, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Stones No. 2 rolls effortlessly out of the glass with notes of tobacco leaf, pencil lead, cardamom and hoisin, over a core of blackcurrant cordial, blackberry pie and redcurrant jelly. The full-bodied palate delivers beautiful tension and seductively ripe, silt-like tannins, supporting the red and black fruit layers, finishing very long and perfumed. Impressive! Aged in 100% new French oak, the fruit here comes from Block 2 of the the estate-owned Perrarus vineyard, located on Pritchard Hill." LPB for TWA Jul 2021