Now, anybody can get lucky one year and make a nice wine. However, to do it year-in and year-out takes knowledge, patience and perseverance. Freemark Abbey has fashioned salivating, classically-styled Cabernet Sauvignons for several decades, and we think their more recent vintages have been their strongest since the 1980s! Their most precious and sought-after Cabernet comes from Bosche, a small 22-acre vineyard located west of Highway 29 on the famed Rutherford Bench, whose deep gravelly soils are well-suited to Bordeaux varietals.
ROBERT PARKER'S WINE ADVOCATE 90 POINTS - "From a well-known Rutherford vineyard, the 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon Bosche Vineyard is a blend of 95% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Merlot aged 29 months in 67% new oak. Backward with a Bordeaux-like framework as well as wonderfully sweet notes of unsmoked tobacco, cassis, fruitcake and cedar, this dense, pure, medium to full-bodied 2010 needs 2-3 years of cellaring and should age for 25+."
ROBERT PARKER'S WINE ADVOCATE 90 POINTS - "From a well-known Rutherford vineyard, the 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon Bosche Vineyard is a blend of 95% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Merlot aged 29 months in 67% new oak. Backward with a Bordeaux-like framework as well as wonderfully sweet notes of unsmoked tobacco, cassis, fruitcake and cedar, this dense, pure, medium to full-bodied 2010 needs 2-3 years of cellaring and should age for 25+."
