2022 East Hill Cabernet Sauvignon

Beginning with the 2020 vintage, David Kent convinced Darcie that the family shouldn’t just make a single “Clone 30” Cabernet Sauvignon from the fruit grown on Lone Hill. The slope's west and eastern sides are sufficiently different from each other, and thus merit their own bottling. This is a difference you can see with your own eyes at harvest time, when the leaves of one side tend to yellow before the other. The soils are slightly different as well. While West Hill tends to make wines that are “spicy,” and higher in pyrazines, East Hill regularly clocks out with higher sugar levels, which means more body and higher alcohol levels. The East Hill is the “bold” side, making heavy-hitting Cabernet Sauvignons designed for cellaring, with notes of eucalyptus and mint. This is the collector’s cab!  

Redolent of black cherries, Chinese Five Spice, California wild-brush and tobacco leaf, the 2022 East Hill Cabernet Sauvignon is an intense wine. Winemaker Julian Halasz couldn’t help but emphasize the cherries in his notes, and the wine's cherry note is multi-dimensional, vibrant, and present all the way through the finish. Crafted to be cellared, the 2022 offers the perfect trifecta of tannins, high acidity and full body that ensure a wine that will continue to evolve for ten years or more. If you choose to drink it now, open it a little early or decant it, and enjoy its heady complexity.