Bella Oaks, Cabernet Sauvignon other_regions_italy This is built-to-age and is

This is built-to-age and is going to need plenty of it

The wine undergoes a 40-day maceration time with four years in oak and one more year of bottle aging

brioche and ripe plum

intense and muscular flavors possess very fine volume as well as a discreet minerality that continues onto the serious

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Bella Oaks, Cabernet Sauvignon other_regions_italy This is built-to-age and isThe 2017 Proprietary Red Wine is a wine I tasted from barrel that I then missed from bottle, as the estate chose to release the 2018 first, and this wine fell through the cracks. Several recent bottles of the 2017 have all been sublime. Readers will find a wine that shows the mid weight, approachable style of the year off to great effect. Silky tannins wrap around dark toned fruit, mocha, spice, licorice and chocolate. The 2017 is an elegant,