2019 Aperture Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon 750ML

2019 Aperture Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon

2019 Aperture Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon “Still in barrel, the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon has a deep ruby color and bursts from the glass with detailed aromas of violet, tar, cassis, liquid cherries, and graphite. This young wine has a stunning perfume! The palate is pure and grainy. Bursts of freshness lift its perfume, and it’s pure flavors linger a long time in the mouth.” WA

“Aperture wines are small batch and they sell out quickly, but they are worth searching out, combining as they do the best of the Old and New World, delivering a powerful punch but well sculpted with natural balance and no acidification or other cellar tricks.” Decanter

Decanter comments on Aperture, “ “Aperture wines are small batch and they sell out quickly, but they are worth searching out, combining as they do the best of the Old and New World, delivering a powerful punch but well sculpted with natural balance and no acidification or other cellar tricks.” A father and son develop their appreciation for great wines together and go on to make some of the finest wines coming out of California. Andy Kats is one of the most famous photographers of his generation and his work graces coffee-table books, galleries, and album covers around the globe. While he was traveling the world for his art, he made a point of bringing along his son, Jesse, to experience it all with him. Over the years, they both benefited from an international wine education that even master sommeliers would envy—sipping with Olivier Leflaive and his family, working through the famous wine cellar of Cheval Blanc and in a late-night tasting of Sassicaia. Wine is an artistic expression as personal and universal as photography. So it only makes sense that Andy and Jesse Katz would finally find a way to work together to produce some of the most stunning wines from California.

Today I bring you their 2019 Aperture Cabernet, an absolutely stunning example of all hillside vineyards which helps to keep berry size down and concentration strong. We are in a period of very expensive Cabernet of quality. Quite honestly this price is a  throwback in time for such great quality from California under $75 a bottle with a monster 97 pts by Parker’s Wine Advocate. Glorious now but definitely built for the cellar.

Viticulturist is the legend Phil Freese who helped shape the vineyards for Opus One and Robert Mondavi’s To-Kalon holdings in Oakville. Jesse Kats is one of the finest Winemakers in California. Over two decades of harvests learning from the best producers in the world—Pétrus, Screaming Eagle, Viña Cobos, Bodega Noemia, and more—have led to this moment at Aperture, where his wines have generated buzz and critical acclaim in equal measure. In a remarkably short period of time, made himself into one of the most respected wine professionals in California. He was the first winemaker ever to be included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, a Wine Enthusiast 40 Under 40 Tastemaker, and had been named a Wine Spectator “Rising Star.”