Wine reviews
Juicy and flush with fruit, including plum purée and boysenberry pâte de fruit, along with melted licorice, cherry clafoutis and a hint of singed alder. While the fruit flirts with heady, this has good freshness and form for balance. Drink now through 2034. 327 cases made. – J.M.
The lushest and most complete of Hobbs's 2020 Cabs is the 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard, which Hobbs recalled being picked on September 26. It's rich and cedary (aged in 88% new French oak) but loaded with plums and blackberries. Full-bodied and plush, it finishes with a soft dusting of cocoa powder-like tannins. – JC
The 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Las Piedra Vineyard is more lifted and perfumed, with bot red and blue fruits mixed with candied violets, chocolate, and smoked tobacco. This medium, to full-bodied, focused, elegant 2020 has ripe tannins, terrific overall balance and outstanding length.