Purlieu’s new big gun. The top-rated one for both Dunnuck and the Wine Advocate.
Dunnuck says:
The 2019 Cabernet Franc Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard is just about as good as it gets, especially if you love classic To Kalon opulence. Giving up a smorgasbord-like array of red and black fruits, tapenade, flowers, and chocolate, this beauty hits the palate with full-bodied richness, a deep, multi-dimensional mouthfeel, sweet tannins, and one heck of a great finish. If this beauty doesn’t put a smile on your face, I don’t know what will. It should shine for 15 years or so, although there’s no need to delay gratification.
And the Wine Advocate:
Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2019 Cabernet Franc Beckstoffer To Kalon wafts gently out of the glass with provocative scents of black raspberries, Black Forest cake and violets with hints of fallen leaves, mossy tree bark and pencil shavings with wafts of wild thyme and fertile loam. The full-bodied palate quivers with tension and shimmers with bright, intense black fruits, textured with grainy tannins, finishing long with a magnificent array of mineral fireworks.