Community Tasting Note

mflesh wrote:

Friday, February 19, 2021 - Well, this is a treat. After letting this one sit a while, I decided to spend a little time with the 2018 William Harrison Cabernet. This wine is massive. Wm Harrison Wines seem to really be locked up upon arrival (see Chardonnay and Rutherford Red for best examples). But, the Cabernet usually does need to sit 6 months and then decant 4-5 hours before showing itself. This wine is a horse of a different color. Out of the gate, it explodes with a massive amount of dark black cherry cassis. You can definitely tell the terroir here is a bit different than a lot of other Rutherford vineyards but that is to their advantage most certainly. It makes the wine deeper, darker, complex. The aromatics on this wine are incredible, and the palate is all that darker black cherry, hint of black cherry cola, dried boysenberry. The middle of this wine shows its youth as it swings back to a sweeter black fruit, and this is where the herbal quality of a lot of the Wm. Harrison wines start to show off. The wine finishes with a lot of chewy but still stiff oak tannin that will be around a while. The wine was definitely not showing all it had, even after 1 hour, but I'm impressed with how verbose and "pop and pour" this wine is NOW, and am really dreaming of 2025 when this one is just going to run the table with wines that are 5x the price. McKahn is doing something special in Rutherford, and he is really locked in to this estate's fruit and doing some wonderful things.

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