2016 Adamvs ‘Teres’ Cabernet Sauvignon

2016 Adamvs ‘Teres’ Cabernet Sauvignon

2016 Adamvs ‘Teres’ Cabernet Sauvignon The 2016 TÉRES bounds from the glass with lush aromas of ripe, wild blackberry, sage, and savory garrigue. Full-bodied, and framed by the fine-grained tannins we have come to expect from ADAMVS Cabernet Sauvignon,this wine exhibits a uniquely seamless integration of all its elements. From its structure, balance, and depth of flavor, look forward to great aging potential. Winemaker
Leading off the 2016s and fresher and slightly more elegant than the 2015, the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon TERES offers a complex perfume of flowery camphor, violets, and blue fruits as well as a medium to full-bodied, refined, seamless mouthfeel that just begs to be drunk. From 100% Cabernet Sauvignon aged in 70% new French oak, it can be drunk today or cellared for 15-20 years.

The wines of Adamvs were the highlight of my trip to Napa. We were are extremely fortunate to secured tiny drops of wine from the 2016 to offer you.

The house is called Adamvs. If there ever was a winery that is set up to make the world’s greatest Cabernet’s, this is it. The winery is a state of the art wine making and vineyard management masterpiece. The tasting room is architectural incredible, glass walls with oak tree rings surrounding it allowing light to come through. The roof is open with wooden beams again allowing light to come through. If it rains there is a sliding glass roof at the push of a button and the whole room is designed to allow light to hit your glass and the wine you are tasting from different angles to accentuate the whole experience. As a sensory person, an incredible experience.

The Adamvs Winery was started by Steve Adams, an industrialist who lives up in Kent CT. Mr Adams love of wine started in Bordeaux where he hired the great Michel Rolland to make wine and purchased Chateau Fonplegade in St Emilion. The Chateau makes three wines that  are spectacular and we have supported. The Adams residence in CT and our support of his Bordeaux property are the only reason we have access to Adamvs. Adamvs was purchased years later and sits way up on Howell Mountain making up some of the finest terroir in Napa with illustrious neighbors all around. You have Dunn Howell Mountain Cab vineyards behind the property and O’Shaugnessy Howell Mountain Cab vineyard just below. We toured the vineyards in an antique 1967 Range Rover again a great touch.

The wines are made by I can tell you the King of Napa today, Philippe Melka (Haut Brion, Petrus, Lail, Vineyard 29). His deft touch I experienced all over the Napa and the man is definitely the hottest, most in demand winemaker in the valley. Vineyard manager is the legendary Michael Wolf (Scarecrow, Bond, Beckstoffer) and full time Winemaker is Jason Velenti  (Paul Hobbs and Kosta Browne). Three Cabernet are made at Adamvs  totaling about 500 cases. Today I have a small allocation of the 2016 Adamvs Terres to strongly recommend. These are monumental wines from a classic vintage. This is hard core Howell Mountain Cabernet made for the cellar and built to age with the finest wines in the world. Extremely collectible, a masterpiece as good as red wines gets.