By Hall Wines
2019 Kathryn Hall Cabernet Sauvignon

Source
The Kathryn Hall Cabernet Sauvignon is the pinnacle of our blending efforts each year. The exalted Sacrashe Vineyard takes center stage and is the basis of this blend. The vineyard contributes mouth-coating richness and complexity, offering deep, dark, earthy cassis flavors and powerfully dense tannins. From there, we seek complementary vineyards, usually from the most regarded mountain appellations, to create balance, symmetry, and finesse in the wine. Lastly, we introduce vineyards with profound depth and decadence to heighten the voluptuousness and opulence that have become a hallmark of our flagship wine.

Vintage Details
The season started with an unseasonably warm, dry winter. At the end of March, cold, rainy weather arrived, and the mild spring gave the vines a strong, early start. Even with above-normal temperatures throughout the summer and fall, we still experienced the marine influence that defines the limiting conditions of our premium sites - cool morning fog and afternoon wind. This vintage produced great wines that are fresh, focused, and beautifully balanced.

Tasting Notes
Inky garnet in color. Open, effusive nose with freshly turned earth, dark spice, chocolate, ripe dark blackberry, and graphite. Supple on the entry, lush, broad, opulent, full of mid-palate fruit and sleek tannins, lengthy. An exceptional vintage of Kathryn Hall Cabernet Sauvignon.

Wine Details
Varietal Composition: 95% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Merlot, 1% Petit Verdot
Barrel Aging: 25 months in 75% new French oak
Appellation: Napa Valley
Vineyard: Sacrashe and vineyard partners
[Information provided by Hall Wines]

2019 Hall Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Kathryn Hall
Producer: Hall Winery
Location: USA, California, North Coast, Napa Valley
Color: Red
Rating: 95
Tasting Date: 2/16/2023
Maturity: 2023 - 2039
Reviewed By: Jeb Dunnuck
Source: Napa Valley’s 2020 and 2021s
The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Kathryn Hall is a blend [...] brought up mostly in new barrels. It’s a killer bottle of wine offering lots of ripe black fruits intermixed with savory herbs, melted chocolate, and tobacco. Medium to full-bodied on the palate, it shows the lush, round, velvety style of the 2019 vintage and is already impossible to resist. It’s going to evolve for 15+ years if well stored.

Hall Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Kathryn Hall 2019
Score: 94
Wine Type and Color: Red Still
Reviewed By: James Molesworth
Primary Grape: Cabernet Sauvignon
Issue: November 15, 2022
Region: California / Napa / Napa Valley
Rich and fleshy in feel, but with a nice juicy edge for balance, this lets creamed plum and blackberry fruit spill forth, laced liberally with mocha, singed alder, sweet tobacco and melted black licorice. For the hedonist crowd. Drink now through 2035.

Hall, Kathryn Hall Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, California, USA 2019
Tasted By: Jonathan Cristaldi (at Napa Valley Vintners office, St Helena, 12 Jun 2022)
Drinking Window: 2022 - 2036
Tasting Score: 94
Producer: Hall
Brand: Kathryn Hall Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage: 2019
Wine Type: Still
Colour: Red
Country: USA
Region: California
Appellation: Napa Valley
Sweetness: Dry
Closure: Natural Cork
Body: Full
Oak: Oaked
Largely from the Sacrashe Vineyard in Rutherford, which the Halls planted in 1995. [...] its a basket of strawberry, plum and chocolate-covered raspberries on the nose while the palate is enveloped in robes of dark berry fruit, cedar oak, liquorice and wet slate. Rich earth notes underscore plush tannins that glide to a long finish of wild herbs dusted with cocoa powder.

2019 Hall Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Kathryn Hall
Rating: 93
Producer: Hall Winery
Wine Region: USA, California, North Coast, Napa Valley
Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon
Color / Type / Sweetness: Red / Table / Dry
Reviewed By: Joe Czerwinski
Drink Date: 2022 - 2035
[...] the flagship 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Kathryn Hall, based largely on fruit from the Sacrashe Vineyard, at the eastern edge of the Rutherford AVA. [...], aged in 75% new barrels (mainly Taransaud), it's cedary on the nose, with plenty of cassis and black cherries in support. Full-bodied and plush, this well-endowed effort finishes long and softly dusty, with just a touch of alcoholic warmth.
Published: Sep 15, 2022

2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Kathryn Hall
Producer: Hall
Place of Origin: United States, Napa
Color: Red
Grape/Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon
Rating: (92-94)
Drinking Window: 2024 - 2034
From: The 2019 Napa Valley Cabernets: A Deep Dive (Jan 2022)
The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Kathryn Hall is bright and nicely focused, with fine energy and tons of class. In 2019, Kathryn Hall is effusive and soaring in its aromatics, distinctly red-toned in its fruit profile and less heavy than the 2018 in this tasting. Does this signal a new era for Hall?
By: Antonio Galloni on October 2021