2014 Newton Cabernet Sauvignon Single Vineyard Yountville

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 94.3 points

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  8/30/2023 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 94 Points

  My first ever bottle of this one.....slow ox'd an hour then cork back in bottle, then cork removed while the wine breathes for another hour, then finally decanted for the rest of the evening, maybe 3+ hours on top of the previous time noted. This is a very funny wine. 91-92 at the outset but with more air over the 2nd and 3rd hours of air it really sings, maybe a 94-95. HMC said he needed a cigar for it at that point. While I'm not a cigar guy, I got his drift. It became more complex, deeper, smoother, classier, more complete if that makes sense. That's when it became a 95 for me. However......1-2 hours later and it falls apart a bit. This one held a lot of promise for me, but in reality it has a very limited drinking window. Weak, tart and thin at the end, at 6+ hours of air. 94 at it's very best point in the evening with the HMCs.

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  5/8/2023 - Wwinowillie Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Nice dark purple color
  
  Nose: leather, oak, spring flowers, good amount of fruit and minerality. It all comes together to form a beautiful nose
  
  Medium milky smooth mouthfeel, tons of minerality, leather, and some tobacco leaf. The remaining fruit seems to be in perfect harmony with the rest of the wine as it ages. Dark chocolate mixes in with a nice smoky finish.
  
  An amazing wine, one of my favorites

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  7/6/2022 - Wwinowillie Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Very excited for this one, last bottle was a year and a half ago and I am buying up as many of these as I can.
  
  Light purple, ruby, and just a faint garnet on edges. Nose is absolutely plush with aromatics like spring floral notes, leather, licorice, graphite, toasted oak, dark red fruit, sage or minty menthol, sweet blackberry, baking spice, and sweet tobacco.
  
  Mouthfeel is fairly light and milky, but dark more bitter flavors like oak, licorice, cacao, tobacco and coffee hit you first, followed by the dark red fruit and finishing again with the darker flavors and cigar smoked . All comes together to provide a fantastic balance of slight contrasts, tannins are well integrated. The finish lingers for close to a minute and the wine also reveals good acidity.
  
  The mouthfeel leaves you feeling that this is a soft and very smooth wine but this is offset by a “harsh” (not in a tannic way) finish that quickly erodes any sweetness of fruit notes.
  
  This leads me to believe that this will continue to improve and hasn’t even hit its prime yet. This continues to evolve as I am currently 2+ hours into decanting.
  
  At 3+ hours into decanting this calms down and begins to show more of its true character, some of the more exaggerated characteristics begin to dissipate in magnitude. I believe that’s where this is headed, and I will probably wait until 2024 to open the next bottle.
  
  Fantastic now but the reason I am doing such a long and detailed analysis is because I feel this has not hit its pinnacle and I don’t even think it’s that close yet. Having experienced a lot of aged wine from this producer I believe this has massive potential, maturing earlier than the Mt. Veeder, but many many years of evolution/improvement to follow.
  
  The longer I have this in the glass the more the shining characteristics reveal themselves. I actually believe this has stagnated in terms of drinking window, but it will be back stronger than ever in probably 2024. I plan to stock up as much as possible in that time, I can’t believe this app lists the drinking window’s conclusion at 2025 because I think that is right around when this wine will be reaching its peak.
  
  I don’t recommend you buy this wine…

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  6/4/2022 - J'agnes Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Good closure. Deep garnet with minimal clear rim - unfiltered shows through. Nose is a little muted - slightly stalky with a toasted oak background. Very Cabernet on the palate - nice smooth blackcurrant. Finishes with a lovely splash of fine grained tannin that lasts a good while. Classy wine.

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  1/26/2021 - Wwinowillie Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Last bottle I had was maybe the best bottle of wine I’ve had in my life. On the anniversary of Kobe’s passing it seemed fitting and a good time to revisit.
  
  Nose: mixed berries (especially blackberry), graphite, mint, baking spices + vanilla, pipe tobacco, black licorice, black olive, tar, wet cement, aged leather, and of course the signature burnt oak that accompanies newton wines. The nose brings a little bit of everything and has me really excited to take the first sip, much more herbs, minerals, secondary and tertiary flavors than fruit.
  
  Graphite shines through immediately, milky heavier body, soft tannin, and deep dark fruits. Finish is a little chewy: oak, black tea, smoked tobacco, and 80+ dark chocolate with a touch of mint. Ripe blackberry, kind of like blackberry ice cream that isn’t sweet and has a touch of mint. Black licorice, black olives provide a savory touch, and pretty much everything involved in this wine has deep dark colors/flavors and characteristics.
  
  This is really good and I think it hits its peak window in the next few years. 95.5

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