Chappellet Signature Cabernet Sauvignon 2007

Professional Ratings

• 95 Jeb Dunnuck

  From a great vintage for the valley, the 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Signature is drinking at point today, with a layered, full-bodied, incredibly satisfying style. Giving up complex notes of red and black fruits, bouquet garni, iron, and tobacco, it has full-bodied richness and integrated, polished tannins. It's ready to go but should keep for another decade.

• 94 Wine Enthusiast
  This is the winery's basic Cabernet, but there’s nothing common about it. It’s dry and complex and moderately ageworthy, a hillside Cabernet that revels in its plush, firm tannins and ripe fruit. There’s a minerality that seems to come from the soil, with expressive blackberry, currant, chocolate and anise flavors. Really fine now after a decant, and should develop through this decade.
• 94 James Suckling

  A solid wine with currant and herbal undertones with some rose stem. Chocolate and currant. Medium to full body. Firm and pretty. Holding on nicely.

• 92 Wine & Spirits
  Mochachino scents of oak come first, followed by a blast of cherry fruit, the chocolate and cherry flavors expanding into a vast wine, crushed by a mineral stomp of tannin in the end. This is powerful without being superripe or hot, just impressively huge. Serve it to your power-hungry friends.
• 92 Wine Spectator
  Very tightly wound, firm and taut, rich and full-bodied, offering intense mineral, blackberry, plum and currant fruit, with floral and sage hints. Ends with gripping tannins, but on the finish the flavors slowly unwind and expand. Needs time. Decant. Best from 2011 through 2020.
• 91 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  The 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Signature exhibits a dense ruby/purple color along with sweet tannin, lots of blueberry, boysenberry and black currant fruit, a hint of spring flowers, a medium to full-bodied texture, and a supple, seamless personality. It should drink well for 15 or more years.