Tasting Notes
Vinous 94/100
The 2016 Hosanna offers attractive, minerally black fruit on the nose, laced with rose petal and woodland aromas. It shows admirable focus and seems to gain vigor with aeration. The palate is well balanced with silky-smooth tannin and a fine bead of acidity. A classy Hosanna, sleek and seductive, culminating in an utterly harmonious finish. It needs a few years to subsume the new oak, but this is a very promising showing. Burgundy in Pomerol, perchance?
Anticipated maturity: 2023-2048
Robert Parker 95
The 2016 Hosanna is composed of 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc. Medium garnet-purple colored, it comes spilling out of the glass with the most beautiful floral perfume of lilacs and lavender over a core of black and red cherries, black raspberries and cedar chest plus hints of tobacco and chocolate mint. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is elegantly styled with beautiful floral and cherry layers framed by velvety tannins, finishing long and fragrant.
Anticipated maturity: 2021-2043
