Terraced hillside, winery-owned vineyard off Highway 29 north of St Helena. Starts off with a generous nose of cinnamon stick, dark chocolate, red cherry liqueur and meat locker. In the mouth get dark red fruits with a little blueberry for good measure, warm pie spices, cocoa and French roast coffee. Medium/full bodied, fine tannins and quite open and enjoyable (already) not even three years after harvest. This wine makes me want to eat rack of lamb with it.
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This is the only wine owners Fred Croshaw and Paul Martin produce. And in tiny amounts: between 100 and 200 cases per vintage, typically. I sold the 2012, 13 and 14 MC4s as a wine merchant. While these earlier vintages really needed bottle age to come around, this 2015 can be drunk now or held for 10+ years. For $75/bottle, this is a relative bargain on the Napa Cabernet landscape.
