Brian Grasso’s single-vineyard Cabernet Franc from the esteemed Red Willow Vineyard is excellent. It balances the rich fruit against powerful oak aging. Despite the rockstar-style power, this wine has a delicate feminine undertone with baking spices, cedar, crushed rocks, dense black fruit, chocolate covered strawberries and red cherries. The complexity in this wine makes it suitable for further aging but, for anyone who enjoys a young powerful wine, I see no reason not to open this wine today.
Structure Cellars, Yakima Valley (Washington) Cabernet Franc 2019
By Vince Simmon