Piña 2016 Firehouse Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Rutherford Napa Valley
The 2016 Firehouse Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is a striking muscular wine that offers a bounty of both fruit and earth driven aromatics. The bouquet is composed of black currants, cherries and boysenberries, interlaced with roasted sage, graphite and scorched volcanic earth. Cocoa and hints of oak grace the palate that is centered on a core of big broad tannins. This wine greatly benefits from decanting when young.
Jeb Dunnuck - 96 Points
"From a rocky vineyard in Rutherford, the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Firehouse Vineyard is a regal, majestic Cabernet that has beautiful notes of crème de cassis, black raspberries, and toasted spices, with an almost mountain fruit-like quality in its aromatics as well as its structure and texture on the palate. Medium to full-bodied, seamlessly constructed, tannic and backward, yet also perfectly balanced, do your best to hide bottles for 4-5 years and it should cruise over the following two decades."
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 93 Points
"One-hundred percent Cabernet Sauvignon aged 20 months in 68% new French oak, the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Firehouse Vineyard is deep garnet-purple in color and offers up exuberant crème de cassis, stewed plums and blueberry compote notes with touches of dark chocolate, star anise, pencil lead and menthol. Full-bodied and beautifully structured with firm grainy tannins and seamless freshness, it packs in the muscular fruit, finishing on a long-lasting earthy note."
