Xurus Cabernet Sauvignon
2009
The 2009 Xurus Cabernet Sauvignon has a light ruby color turning toward brick on the brim. On the nose, you can detect dark berries like blackberry and boysenberry along with more evolved aromas of pencil shavings, leather, tobacco, and clove. The wine is juicy, has good acidity and structure with smooth, ripe tannins. It is evolving pleasantly in the glass.
Available only in the Limited Collection
Xurus Cabernet Sauvignon
2010
Winemaker for this project was the late Denis Malbec, of Château Latour fame. This wine opens with sumptuous layers of boysenberry, olallieberry, coriander, chocolate, and mushroom on the nose. Flavors on the palate include baked damson plum, dark mulberry, orange zest, tobacco, savory spice, and supple tannins on the finish. Hidden Gem.
Xurus Cabernet Sauvignon
2011
This vintage 2011 bottling shows what time in the cellar can achieve with wine. Opulent, the wine offers aromas of black plum, boysenberry, Mission fig, allspice, earth, dried florals, and sweet oak mingling throughout. The supple palate extends into firm, chewy tannins. Flavors of fruit, spice, oak, caramelized orange zest, and brown sugar gently release into mouthwatering tannins and tension to finish.
Xurus Cabernet Sauvignon
2012
94 Points, Editors’ Choice, Wine Enthusiast, October 2026
This wine is intoxicating, tense with aromas of red currant, black raspberry, plum, alpine flowers, star anise, cedar, and chocolate mint. The palate features juicy Bing cherry, black olive, orange peel, and bittersweet chocolate, with silky tannins and a mouthwatering, long finish. Decant or cellar until 2040
Xurus Cabernet Sauvignon
2013
94 Points, Editors’ Choice, Wine Enthusiast, October 2026
This wine is deep, delivering aromas of Armagnac-soaked plum, boysenberry, black Mission fig, cedar, and dried florals, with toasted oak gently woven through. Flavors on the palate include black raspberry coulis, youthful boysenberry, blood orange segments, crushed bay leaf, star anise, porcini mushroom, allspice, and firm tannins, leading to a dry finish. Decant or cellar until 2040
Xurus Cabernet Sauvignon
2014
94 Points, Editors’ Choice, Wine Enthusiast, October 2026
This wine is opulent, with aromatics of big, dark cherries, damson plum, cardamom, cedar, rose petal, black olive, star anise, orange, and well-integrated ribbons of sweet oak gliding throughout the nose. Flavors on the palate deliver youthful cassis, wild black strawberry, wild black raspberry, navel orange, clove, sage, crushed bay leaf, slivers of dark coco nib, and mouthwatering acidity, which leaves you wanting more. Decant or cellar until 2045
Available only in the Limited Collection
Xurus Limited Edition Collection
Includes six limited-edition cabernet sauvignon vintages from 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, & 2014.
Xurus wines are hand-crafted from a blend of 3 Cabernet Sauvignon clones produced at Sonatina Vineyards in Lake County. Produced at Sonatina Vineyards, hidden away in a corner of Lake County in Northern California, Sonatina Vineyards is an ultra-premium Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard located at the headwaters of Cache Creek.
