Dunn Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
About This Wine
The 2022 Dunn Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon represents a fascinating departure for one of California’s most stubbornly classic producers. In a warm vintage marked by extreme heat spikes across the valley floor, the Dunn family opted not to purchase outside fruit, making the 2022 Napa Valley bottling sourced entirely from their high-elevation Howell Mountain estate—a rare occu...
About This Wine
The 2022 Dunn Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon represents a fascinating departure for one of California’s most stubbornly classic producers. In a warm vintage marked by extreme heat spikes across the valley floor, the Dunn family opted not to purchase outside fruit, making the 2022 Napa Valley bottling sourced entirely from their high-elevation Howell Mountain estate—a rare occurrence echoed only in select past years like 2010 and 2011.
On the nose, it immediately asserts its high-altitude origin with an intricate weave of dark, brambly blackberry, mulberry, and cassis, elevated by lift—dried lavender, crushed rose petals, menthol, and a cool pine-forest herbal quality. Subtle underlying notes of wet slate, cedarwood, and pipe tobacco ground the aromatic complexity in classic mountain terroir.
Historically known for formidable, astringent young tannins that demand decades in a cellar, Dunn’s 2022 expression reveals a softer, far more succulent personality upon release. The palate is medium-to-full-bodied with surprising early-drinking suppleness. Its dark-purplish fruit is remarkably juicy and vibrant, held in harmony by fine-grained, lacy tannins and a persistent streak of graphite minerality. It carries a slightly higher alcohol profile than usual for the producer—just over 14%—yet maintains the structural tension, fresh acidity, and savory length that define the estate’s identity.
The result is a rare meeting point: a wine that retains the dark-fruited, resinous backbone of mountain Cabernet while offering immediate, silk-textured charm, bridging classic longevity with unprecedented youthful approachability.
Score
96 points, James Suckling.
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