This single vineyard Beckstoffer ToKalon Cabernet is a great expression of both the richness and power of Clone 7 – a stalwart in Napa Valley for decades. With its fruit forward profile, the wine opens immediately with floral aromatics mixed with dark currants, spices, and blue/black fruit. This 2018’s mid-palate shines, loaded with racy yet rounded firm tannins and waves of decadent fruit. Carter Cellars first vintage was in 1998 sourcing grapes from the steeply terraced Coliseum Block of the Hossfeld Vineyard. In continuing to source wine from top Napa vineyards Mark and Nils made a svelte Fortuna Block Cabernet from the ancient red volcanic soils of the Fortuna Vineyard in 1999. In 2000 Carter Cellars began a long and deeply rewarding relationship with the most iconic vineyard in the western hemisphere: the Beckstoffer portion of the original ToKalon Vineyard in Oakville. Thus began the rise of the famed and highly rated Carter Cellars Beckstoffer ToKalon Cabernet, a wine that to this day continues to receive top scores from critics worldwide.