Tasting note

The opaque purple-colored 2005 Finca [Los Nobles] Cabernet Field Blend is made up of 88% Cabernet Sauvignon and 12% Cabernet Franc [aka Bouchet] aged for 24 months in new French oak. It exhibits a superb perfume of pain grille, clove, cinnamon, red currants, black currants, and blackberry liqueur. This leads to a plush, nearly opulent wine with gobs of spicy fruit, enough ripe tannin to evolve for 6-8 years, and a 45-second finish. Its prime drinking window will be from 2015 to 2035. Score - 94. (Jay Miller, erobertparker.com, Dec. 2008)

*Available only in the BC Liquor Store at the Vancouver International Wine Festival Feb. 26-28, 2015.*