Cayuse Widowmaker Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

Professional Ratings

• 97 Jeb Dunnuck
  The 2017 The Widowmaker En Chamberlin is another Bordeaux look-alike (it reminds me of a wine from the Graves region) that has loads of blackcurrant and cassis as well as leafy tobacco, cedar pencil, chocolate, cold fireplace and Asian spices on both the nose and palate. Rich, full-bodied, and concentrated, it has a wonderfully seamless texture, ultra-fine tannins, and a great, great finish. This beautiful, elegant yet powerful Cabernet Sauvignon will drink well for 20-30 years or more.
  Rating: 97+
• 94 Wine Enthusiast

  The aromas offer beguiling, complex notes of funk, cedar, plum, moist earth and black currant. Intensely pure, ripe, dense, palate-coating flavors follow, showing impressive staying power. It’s an outrageously pleasurable wine—a textbook example of what Cabernet can achieve in this sub-appellation of the valley. Best after 2024.

• 93 James Suckling

  A very pretty, pure cabernet with currant and plum character and some peaches. It’s full-bodied and round-textured, yet polished and caressing. Why wait on this? Drink or hold.

• 93 Wine Spectator

  Combines refinement with muscle, featuring blackberry, black olive and crushed stone accents that build tension toward dense tannins. Hands off for now. Best from 2022 through 2030.