Cabernet Sauvignon, Montecillo Vineyard, 2021

Sitting at 1800 ft on Sonoma’s Moon Mountain, this is the highest site in Massimo’s portfolio. Planted in the late 1960s, now farmed by legendary Chuy Ordaz, it is always the first of Massimo’s sites to ripen, sitting as it does above the fog line, exposed to the full evening sun. This combination produces a wonderful contrast between aromatic splendour, intensity and depth, with crystalline fruit, extreme precision, and almost exotic berries married to great depths of stony minerality, graphite and a mouthwatering salinity. Superb.