Paul Hobbs Coombsville Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

A delicious, layered, chocolate- and cherry-scented wine that entices you from the first sniff and pulls you through a rich palate and a lingering finish. So luscious, balanced, vivid and deep, showing the silky tannins and cool fruit notes of this southern Napa district. Contains 6% petit verdot, 2% cabernet franc and 4% merlot. Aged in 53% new French oak. Drinkable now, but best from 2030.

The 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon (Coombsville) is a terrific wine in this vintage. It shows more forward fruit and less Coombsville savoriness than most years, but that is to be expected in 2022. Black cherry, plum, graphite, leather and spice are front and center. Clean mineral notes appear to frame the finish. The 2022 includes 7% Petit Verdot, which lends freshness.