2014 Substance Cabernet Sauvignon Vineyard Collection Jack's Vineyard

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• By James Suckling
  3/19/2018, (See more on JamesSuckling.com...)

  (Substance Walla Walla Valley Jack's Vineyard Vineyard Collection, United States) Login and sign up and see review text.

• By Stephen Tanzer
  Washington: Various Shades of Hot (Oct 2017), 10/1/2017, (See more on Vinous...)

  (Wines Of Substance Cabernet Sauvignon Vineyard Collection Jack's Vineyard Washington Red) Login and sign up and see review text.

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• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull K Vintners, 11/8/2017

  (Substance Vnyd Collection Cabernet Sauvignon Jacks Vineyard) Hello friends. We have small parcels of a trio of rarities from K Vintners’ recent set of releases. Our K offers are always feeding frenzies, and this one – our last of the year – promises to be extra cuckoo given the wines involved. So let me first offer two quick notes: 1. To the best of our knowledge, we have retail dibs on all three of these wines west of the mountains. 2. It’s likely we’ll have to under-allocate here, given the parcel sizes, so a quick reminder of our allocation technique: Our allocations favor breadth over depth, so that everyone gets one bottle before anyone gets two. And our formula for prioritizing allocations includes overall orders, frequency of orders, recency of orders, and list tenure, among other factors. Now, onto the wines:Wine Advocate: Copyrighted material withheld. 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from stony, cobbly Jack’s Vineyard along the floor of the Walla Walla Valley. This dried riverbed site was planted in 1999. It’s the sophomore release of Jack’s Cab, and the first time we’ve been able to offer it to our list. 100% whole berry fermented with native yeast, the wine gets 22 months in 50% new French oak barriques before bottling. It clocks in at 14.5% listed alcohol. Notes from K: A big fist in a velvet glove. Tar, black fruit, cassis is just the beginning. Earth, tobacco and graphite bring this generous smooth mouth filling wine home.