King Family Vineyards, Monticello (Virginia) Petit Verdot 2014

 A dark, concentrated and powerful wine, with dark fruit tones and impressive flavor impact.  But that’s only half the story here:  Equally impressive is the integration of the wine’s fruit, oak, acidity and tannin, which result in a wine that seems complete and seamless even at this young age.  Power is derived more easily than poise from Petit Verdot, but this shows both, and the delicious result seems to derive roughly equally from great work in both the vineyard and winery.