2021 Purlieu Sleeping Lady Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
The 2021 Purlieu Sleeping Lady Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is among the most coveted and celebrated wines in the entire Purlieu portfolio — a single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon of breathtaking aromatic beauty, silken elegance, and the kind of profound terroir expression that has made the Sleeping Lady Vineyard one of the most legendary and sought-after sites in all of Napa Valley. The Sleeping Lady Vineyard, situated in the Yountville AVA and farmed with extraordinary meticulous care, produces Cabernet Sauvignon of a singularly perfumed, graceful, and precisely delineated character — the "Burgundy of Napa Valley" in the eyes of many who have experienced its bewitching combination of red fruit delicacy, floral lift, and stony mineral precision — that no other Napa Valley vineyard quite replicates. The 2021 vintage, one of California's finest and most heralded, gave the Sleeping Lady the ideal growing season to express its unique terroir voice with maximum eloquence and completeness: aromas of fresh red cherry, dried violets, rose petal, pomegranate, pencil lead, cedar, and a saline mineral note of extraordinary finesse and definition lead to a medium-to-full bodied, silken, and perfectly poised palate of outstanding natural acidity and a finish of almost unearthly length and floral mineral beauty.
