2023 Punta Crena Rossese Vigneto Isasco Riviera Ligure di Ponente, Liguria, Italy Sasaiwai The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Morlet

The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Morlet Estate comes from a vineyard just outside of Saint Helena and it’s always a more structured

It’s a beautiful wine with great length to drink over the next 10-15 years

with a firm texture

The family cleared land near the forest line to plant their vines here in the 1950s and 1960s

minerals and cassis on the nose

2023 Punta Crena Rossese Vigneto Isasco Riviera Ligure di Ponente, Liguria, Italy Sasaiwai The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon MorletWhile Punta Crenas wines are easy quaffers, it is also possible to geek out about them, if thats your thing. Rossese is a somewhat obscure Ligurian grape with a knack for communicating its terroirin this case, Varigottis red claywhich brings uncommon roundness, the wild Ligurian brush with its herbal notes, and the emblematic coastal air salinity.