Cabernet Sauvignon 'Kronos'

Score

97

"Cathy Corison,s iconic Kronos Vineyard bottling from St. Helena is made of 100% Cabernet Sauvignon aged 20 months in 50% new French oak. Remarkable purity of fruit and savoury aromatics. This is a beautiful wine with finely-delineated blackberry, black cherry, black currant notes and expressive graphite minerality. Fresh, lively, and built like a skyscraper, with long, firm beams of cedary tannins and tangy blood orange acidity. The finish is long, vivid, and marked by dried herbs, citrus, and wildflowers: a real highlight and a bright spot in this challenging vintage. -Jonathan Cristaldi"

Score

97

"The 2020 Kronos Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon from Corison is utterly captivating, and one of the most successful wines from this challenging vintage. It immediately begins to impress as it displays remarkable elegance, purity and a lovely sense of character. This opens incredibly perfumed aromas of ripe blackcurrants and black cherries, which are woven together with fresh cut violets, graphite, wet gravel with hints of herbs and licorice that all take shape. The palate is full-bodied and wellstructured with polished tannins that wrap its mineral-laced core. It goes on to display outstanding overall precision and balance leading up to the lovely dark berry and mineral driven finish. This is a simply stunning wine from Corison that is fantastic now, it should go on to offer years of drinking pleasure ahead. Kronos Vineyard seems to thrive in just about any condition mother nature can throw at it, and with Cathy Corison at the helm, this is a wine you can count on being fantastic in any vintage. -Joe D'Angelo"

Score

94

"Blackcurrants, cigar box and dried herbs on top of the blackberries and Spanish chocolate. Deep and rich, but still quite fresh and vertical on the palate, with dense and fine-grained tannins dunked into the zesty, dark fruit. Well structured. -James Suckling"

Score

92

"The 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Kronos Vineyard is a powerhouse. Black cherry, mocha, incense, tobacco and gravel add to an impression of searing gravitas. -Antonio Galloni"

Score

95

"Corison's 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Kronos Vineyard is more floral than the other offerings, easily marrying hints of thyme blossom with fresh cassis and a delicate touch of vanilla. It's medium to full-bodied, marginally larger in scale than even the Sunbasket bottling, but still refined, balanced and elegant, with a long, silky-textured finish. -Joe Czerwinski"

Score

95

"Fragrant and formidable, this 2020 cabernet stands apart, the vines now more than half a century old, rooted deep into their benchland soils, farmed to ripen early. It,s a welcoming vintage of Kronos, the tannins gentle in their youth, while the wine has detail and keeps giving new perspectives as it opens. This has fruit, but it isn,t like any specific fruit you could name, it,s just Kronos, somewhere between a berry and a fresh woodland mushroom. There,s a coolness to the wine that makes it completely Cathy Corison,s own. No one else grows fruit in the heat of St. Helena with this kind of cool savor. She has made the produce of the land a reflection of her intelligence and spirit. -Joshua Greene"

Score

96

"Cellar Selection - Deep-seated black fruits and light smoky-spicy oak notes waft from the glass before full tannins and saturated black cherries and black currants wake up the palate. This agile, elegant wine is enjoyable now after decanting, but needs further age to show its full potential. -Jim Gordon"