Deep garnet-purple in color, the single-varietal 2021 State Lane Vineyard Grand Vin Cabernet Sauvignon storms out of the glass with powerful notions of creme de cassis, plum preserves, and baked blackberries leading to hints of candied violets, Indian spices, and forest floor with a touch of garrigue. The full-bodied palate is chock full of black fruit and savory layers, framed by firm, ripe, grainy tannins and a lively line, finishing long and fragrant. This is beautiful and should be incredibly long lived. 350 cases were made.

All Cabernet Sauvignon from two blocks on the estate, the 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Vin spent 20 months in 92% new French oak, with the balance in once-used barrels, and Napa Valley doesn t get any classier. This beauty is inky hued and displays a pure, powerful, full-bodied style in its cassis and black raspberry-driven fruit profile as well as notes of tobacco, graphite, spicy oak, and espresso roast. The purity is off the charts, it's concentrated, flawlessly balanced, and has incredible length. This gem deserves 5-7 years of bottle age and will have 30-40 years of overall longevity.

The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Vin is a dense, potent wine. Here, too, the natural intensity of the year really comes though. Black cherry, plum, lavender, espresso, licorice, grilled herbs and menthol all run through this dramatic, heady Cabernet Sauvignon. The aromatics are simply compelling. Polished tannins wrap it all together in style.

(97+ points) Kapcsandy's 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Vin State Lane Vineyard is delicately floral, with those notes accenting cassis and blackberry fruit alongside vague hints of thyme and sage. All Cabernet Sauvignon aged in 92% new French oak, the cedar and vanilla notes are noticeable, but they're definitely in the background, as they are in all of the Kapcsandy wines. Medium to full-bodied, this wine is silky and framed by fine-grained tannins, balanced and long on the finish. There's a poise to these wines in 2021 that sets them apart. They're not about size or power—although they don't lack for it—but about elegance and finesse. - Joe Czerwinski