Flora Springs, Napa Valley (California) 2013

This bottling has been around since 1984, and it features a different blend of three of the five main Bordeaux varieties each year.  This year small amounts of Petit Verdot and Malbec join the full throttle Cabernet Sauvignon, and together they form a bold, fruit forward wine that adds lively oak spice of the mild coffee and baker’s chocolate type, and just a touch of dried herb character.  Very nice now, and worthy of ten years of bottle aging