2016 Arnot-Roberts Cabernet Sauvignon Clajeux Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 92 points

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  3/15/2024 - davidb18 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Starts with a rich mix of herbs and ripe fruit on the nose. Maybe a bit of mint and lemon. Continues with a solid acid base balanced well with not too sweet blueberries, herbs and nutmeg. A wine that seems to have many years to go. Just enough of being the antithesis of the over ripe CA cabs. Excellent.

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  4/18/2021 - davidb18 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Upon opening, a bright nose of fruit. It requires time in a decanter and even better day two. A fairly firm and noticeable structure of tannin and acid. As it opens, it shows not too ripe fruit of blueberries, some cranberries, herbs and a hint of cinnamon and cloves. A light touch of oak that balances the wine. A long finish - oak, red fruit, lime, cream, mint, cinnamon. This is early in the drinking window. Great wine.

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  11/11/2020 - viniferatu Likes this wine:

  Wow! Sweet and bright fruit on the nose: creme de cassis, blackberry jam, sweet cherries. Violets, pencil shavings and dark green leaves back up the fruit. Lively and fresh on the palate, but very much a dense and full-bodied Cab, with firm tannins and dark fruit lingering. This is amazing stuff.

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  5/24/2020 - KPB Likes this wine: 93 Points

  I worried that this would be too young, but in fact the Clajeux is already drinking well.
  
  The wine is dark in color, yet has a cool-climate personality: you can tell that yields were low and that the vines worked hard to come up with this very distinctive fruit. The nose is quite aromatic, showcasing the barest hint of menthol over black current compote, beeswax, sage. Flavorful and ripe, but not sweet: this wine is in a slightly tart, balanced style with lifted acidity that really frames the story, and has a firm but soft tannic spine, long finish.
  
  When I bought this, I was hoping to avoid the kind of Napa cherry creme caramel one sometimes finds, and without question, this bottle is in my comfort zone. Plus, I bet it can improve for 20 years... a rare statement to be able to make about a Napa cabernet these days!

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