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- Practicing Organic
- 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
- Sourced from the Kronos Vineyard (St. Helena)
- Planted in 1971 on St. George rootstock, which is completely resistant to Phylloxera
- 50-year-old vines
- Fermented in stainless steel tanks
- Racked to French oak for malolactic fermentation and following completion aged 20 months in French oak, 50% new
Info
Producer:
Vintage:
2021
Country:
United States
Region:
California
Appellation:
St. Helena
Variety:
Cabernet Sauvignon
Color:
Red
Farming Practice:
Practicing Organic
Sizes Available
| Full Bottle | US-COR-40-21 | 6/750ml |
Resources
Press & Reviews
Wine Advocate
Score
96
Date
2025-02-27
"As it is in most vintages, the 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Kronos Vineyard is gently floral and herbal (sage-like?) on the nose, with those delicate elements joining scents of pencil shavings and cassis. It's cooler-seeming than the Sunbasket Vineyard bottling, with more perfume and less obvious fruit, yet it's still medium to full-bodied, concentrated, tannic, mouthwatering and long. If the Sunbasket is more showy, this is more restrained and perhaps more elegant."
REVIEWS FROM PAST VINTAGES
James Suckling
Score
96
Date
Vinous
Score
93+
Date
Wine Advocate
Score
95+
Date
Wine and Spirits
Score
94
Date
Decanter
Score
97
Date
2020-10-13
James Suckling
Score
97
Date
2021-01-27
Jancis Robinson
Score
18
Date
2021-11-11
Jeb Dunnuck
Score
93
Date
2021-01-27
Vinous
Score
97
Date
2021-01-01
Wine Enthusiast
Score
98
Date
2022-04-01
Wine Spectator
Score
96
Date
2022-02-02
James Suckling
Score
97
Date
2022-02-03
Jancis Robinson
Score
18
Date
2022-11-09
Jeb Dunnuck
Score
94
Date
2022-03-10
Vinous
Score
98
Date
2022-01-07
Wine Advocate
Score
94
Date
2022-09-15
Wine Enthusiast
Score
97
Date
2023-04-01
Decanter
Score
97
Date
2023-04-05
"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"
Int'l Wine Review
Score
97
Date
2024-01-01
"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"
James Suckling
Score
97
Date
2024-11-13
"Attractive nose with aromas of black and blue fruit and hints of cloves, licorice, graphite and iodine on the nose. Crushed stone notes. Medium- to full-bodied and structured, but very fine with silky, almost delicate texture to its tannins. Very harmonious and lively. Long and fresh with al-dente fruit. Really beautiful and pristine. Drink from 2027."
Jancis Robinson
Score
17+
Date
2023-04-26
"Brooding, very deep, blackish crimson. Lifted aroma – on the nose it seems more vivacious than the Sunbasket. On the palate it's still a little angular, waiting to have the holes filled in. I'd cellar this rather than drink it now, though it's already impressively long. 14%"
Jeb Dunnuck
Score
94
Date
2023-12-26
"The 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Kronos Vineyard offers a touch more density and depth, with medium to full-bodied aromas and flavors of ripe currants, blackberries, tobacco, and leather, with a kiss of background minerality. This concentrated, layered 2020 has tons to love, and I d put it up with the best of the vintage."
Vinous
Score
92
Date
2022-10-01
"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"
Wine Advocate
Score
95
Date
2023-12-29
"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"
Wine and Spirits
Score
95
Date
2024-03-01
"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"
Wine Enthusiast
Score
96
Date
2024-04-01
"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"