This single-vineyard wine is only available at the winery and emerges from the component parts utilized in the Private Reserve blend.The 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon Chabot exhibits chocolate, espresso roast notes, truffle, earth, black fruit, and spice characteristics. It’s always a fascinating education to taste through these component parts, but the resulting blend that Ed Sbragia puts together, the extraordinary Private Reserve, is one of the great Cabernet Sauvignons of California and he has fashioned a succession of beauties since 1991. In fact, there are two gorgeous ones in the market, the profound 2001 and the flamboyant, exotic 2002.Tel. (707) 963-7115; Fax (707) 963-1735

The medium to full-bodied 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon Chabot Vineyard, which comes from St. Helena, reveals lots of creme de cassis and chocolate. As longtime readers know, the Beringer winery blends all their top single vineyards into their flagship wine, the Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. At the same time, for members of their private club, they offer several hundred cases of these same vineyards bottled separately as an educational journey through different Napa Valley terroirs considered to be the finest in their program. Interestingly, the Private Reserve blend always seems to eclipse the component parts, as evidenced by the following tasting notes. Tel. (866) 708-9463