The 2023 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon from Favia continues the philosophy that husband-and-wife team Andy Erickson and Annie Favia established when they founded the estate in 2003. Erickson—whose résumé includes winemaking roles at Screaming Eagle, Harlan Estate, and Dalla Valle Vineyards—brings an Old World sensibility to Napa Cabernet, emphasizing site transparency, moderate extraction, and architectural balance over sheer scale. The 2023 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is sourced from a mosaic of meticulously farmed vineyards spanning benchland and volcanic sites across Napa, giving the wine a layered structural profile. Cabernet Sauvignon thrives here because of Napa’s dramatic diurnal shifts and well-drained volcanic and alluvial soils, which encourage thick skins, small berries, and naturally high phenolic concentration. For a Master Sommelier’s palate, the varietal signature is unmistakable: cassis, black cherry, graphite, and crushed rock layered with violets, tobacco leaf, and subtle bay laurel. Erickson’s restrained oak regimen allows the terroir to lead, highlighting Cabernet’s intrinsic architecture—firm but polished tannins, vibrant acidity, and the kind of structural symmetry that suggests two decades of graceful evolution. The 2023 vintage in Napa, marked by a long, temperate growing season and extended hang time, allowed phenolic maturity to develop slowly, producing Cabernet with remarkable aromatic precision and tension—qualities that align perfectly with Favia’s terroir-first philosophy and make this bottling both intellectually compelling and cellar-worthy.

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