In addition the lift and freshness that the addition of the Franc added makes this perhaps the most food friendly To Kalon we have ever made. This years wine includes the largest percentage of Cabernet Franc that we have ever had in a To Kalon and wow what that did! This years version has all of the depth and richness that you expect from a To Kalon Cabernet but with much more refined tannins and a slight rosewater, tobacco edge that is not normally there. The 2019 To Kalon Cabernet is truly unlike any other To Kalon we have made in 20 years. Matured in 100% Darnajou small French oak barrels for twenty months and bottled without fining or filtration. Maybe this is because we thin each vine to one cluster per shoot, and most probably it is one that will be evolving for a very long time. Often our To Kalons show a lot more fruit or “flesh” at this stage, but this one is darker and deeper than most we have made from our eight blocks in To Kalon.
