Post Parade 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley

Thomas Brown Cab - 95 Points                
New limited-release Cabernet from winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown. Limited.

Post Parade is quintessential Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon crafted by Winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown from two vineyard locations that deserve a mention: Tench Vineyard in Oakville providing a powerful structure and the Red Head Vineyard in the Southeast side of Napa Valley just below Atlas Peak where clone 685 Cabernet Sauvignon gives a plush appeal to the final blend. This is a Cabernet with an intense personality wrapped in a shapely figure. The 2023 starts out with generous aromatic complexity showing elderberries, garrigue, dried sage, and Thai basil leaf. Black fruit flavors follow on the palate carried in a full body of fleshy fruits supported by firm tannin structure and a polished finish that brings retro-nasal whiffs of graphite and cedar. One moment later, warm blackcurrant cordial repeats the fruit notes, taking you back to the beginning

After visiting Napa countless of times, three friends from Kentucky decided that it was time to make their own label. Enlisting the help of Frank and Kathy Dotzler (Outpost), and the most acclaimed winemaker in Napa today, Thomas Brown (Schrader, etc), they got everything they needed to make a killer bottle of wine. Post Parade is sourced from the Red Head Vineyard in Napa and the Tench Vineyard in Oakville. Thomas says that the Red Head vineyard gives structure, while the Tench Vineyard provides generosity, and we agree. Big, lush, and velvety smooth valley floor fruit mingles perfectly with the sweet tannic structure of Red Head’s hillside fruit. 

94 Points James Suckling: "Densely packed with layers of blackberry compote, baking spices, dried flowers and licorice. The full-bodied palate offers a rounded, viscous mouthfeel that finishes long and lush. High-octane and generous."