Powerful, seamless and saturated with flavor, this giant of a wine goes deep in black currants, black cherries and mint aromas. The dense, rather firm texture holds a tasty mélange of black cherries and black figs shaded by cedar, cocoa, tobacco and espresso. It needs several years to open up. Best from 2028-2040.

The inaugural vintage, the 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Rhythm comes from the Stags Leap District and is 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Petit Verdot, 5% Merlot, and the rest Cabernet Franc. Its deep purple-hued, with some serious intensity in its cassis and blueberry fruit as well as notes of smoked tobacco, black olive, iron, and truffle. Concentrated, full-bodied, and velvety textured, it's a ripe, expansive, opulent expression from this appellation that has beautiful tannins and moderate acidity. It's going to evolve for 15 years with ease.

Another new wine in this range, the 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Rhythm shows a more muscular expression of Stags Leap, with firm, insistent tannins that are front and center. Perhaps the recent bottling has played an impact on how this shows. Dark red/purplish fruit, lavender, spice, new leather, licorice and cedar power through.