DeLille Cellars Four Flags Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Coming from four different sites on Red Mountain, the 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Four Flags is brilliant, if not a true superstar wine in the making. Classic Red Mountain minerality as well as gravelly earth, dried tobacco, and savory red and black fruits define the aromatics, and it's medium to full-bodied, with terrific concentration, ripe tannins, and a great, great finish. It should be up there with the crème de la crème of the vintage.

Generous and elegantly polished, with rich blackberry, mocha espresso and black olive flavors that build a fleshy texture on the long finish. Drink now through 2032. 2,100 cases made.

Musky blackcurrants combine with mint, gravel dust and a dusting of violet candy as the radiant 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Four Flags emerges from the glass. It floods the palate with silken textures and polished red and black fruits, elevated by a core of racy acidity. Dark chocolate and blood orange tones amass toward the close. A web of fine-grained tannins adds a lovely framework as the 2021 finishes juicy despite its potency and power, leaving a hint of licorice and crunchy minerality to linger on. This is beautifully done.

They should call this wine "Six Flags," because it contains an amusement park's worth of flavor. The roller coaster ride begins with aromas of dark plums, fresh-grated ginger and worn leather. The wine's black cherry and apricot fruit flavors then mix it up with tobacco and a log flume's worth of oak. Velvety tannins a silky texture are punctured by a joy buzzer pulse of acidity.