2005 Lancaster Estate Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Unlike the vast majority of

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with tea leaf and orange peel accents around a sleek core of red berry flavors

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the wine is bottled as this Savagnin

2005 Lancaster Estate Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Unlike the vast majority of*Cellar Selection* A massive wine that absolutely demands time in the cellar, Lancasters 05 is nearly all Cabernet, with tiny amounts of the other four Bordeaux varieties. It stuns with the power and authenticity of its hilly Cabernet origins, offering vast black currant, orange rind, anise and smoky oak flavors that implode on the palate. But the tannins are hard. It should blossom and fully come into its own after 2010.