The 2019 Brandon Gregory Illation is a wine of beautifully developed complexity, exceptional 2019 California vintage quality, and the kind of gracefully evolving, multi-dimensional red wine character that the Illation program — named for the intellectual act of drawing conclusions from evidence, of arriving at understanding through engaged and patient observation — aspires to create in every vintage. The 2019 California growing season, now widely celebrated as one of the finest of the modern era for California red wine, produced Cabernet-based wines of outstanding natural balance, exceptional concentration, and the structural precision and genuine aging potential that reward patient cellaring with a discovery of increasing complexity and deeply satisfying secondary development. Now with several years of graceful bottle evolution behind it, the 2019 Brandon Gregory Illation is entering an excellent secondary drinking window that reveals the full depth and integrated completeness that this exceptional vintage and Brandon Gregory's meticulous winemaking make possible: aromas of dark cherry, cassis, graphite, cedar, dried violet, mocha, warm spice, and a developing earthy complexity of real beauty and definition lead to a full-bodied, silky, and completely integrated palate with resolved tannins, excellent natural acidity, and a finish of extraordinary length and deeply rewarding contemplative satisfaction.