97 points and Best in Show at the Decanter World Wine Awards:
For the second year running, it’s an Oak Knoll Cabernet which has carried the Best In Show torch for the Napa, underlining the fact that this spot in the Valley seems to be ideal for mingling Napa’s diagnostic generosity and depth with an expressive finesse and an approachability which both appeals to our judges and chimes with the wine world’s zeitgeist. The wine is still dark black-purple, and the aromatic currant and berry fruits are blue, tender and enticing, with skilled and seamless oak integration. On the palate, the wine has weight and depth — but what you really notice in this 2018 vintage is its purity and inner energy; the weight and depth follow on after, but don’t overwhelm from the start. The seamless integration of acidity and brisk tannin, too, is another mouthwatering
hallmark — of skilled winemaking, or the place? Who’s to say?
As in Stags Leap, the 2018 vintage, where Trefethen could pick every block at perfect ripeness (and none at over ripeness) proved ideal for this wine’s utterly classic style.
For what it is, very fairly priced.