EISELE Cabernet Sauvignon Estate

VM: 92

The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon is bold, powerful and authoritative, with plenty of dark fruit to play off the muscular tannins. Inky blue/purplish fruit, leather, smoke, graphite and scorched earth add attractive bassy undertones throughout. Brooding in personality and yet also very much mid-weight in feel, the 2016 has a lot to offer. I would prefer to drink it over the next decade or so.

WS: 96

Ripe, broad and fleshy, this lets beautiful plum sauce and blackberry compote notes drape effortlessly over a tobacco- and loam-accented spine. The loamy edge drives through the finish with authority, while the fruit keeps cascading over it, ending very long and very deep. This has a beguiling aspect despite the enormous scale, but it should benefit from cellaring. A wine of the earth, through and through. Best from 2021 through 2035. 1,825 cases made.