The 2021 Proprietary Blend Blacktail is also terrific. A blend of 61% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Malbec, 11% Petite Sirah, and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, it has a beautiful full-bodied style as well as ripe black fruits, chocolate, and peppery, herbal notes, plenty of mid-palate depth, and ripe tannins that emerge on the finish. It's a beautifully layered red to drink over the coming 10-15 years.

A delicious red with deep dark fruit, showing softness and freshness at the same time. It's full and layered with round, creamy tannins and a mushroom, bark and dark fruit-led center palate. Chewy at the end with some attractive, velvety-textured tannins.

The 2021 Blacktail is a blend of 61% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Malbec, 11% Petite Sirah, 4% Cabernet Franc, and 3% Petit Verdot. Deep garnet-purple in color, it struts out of the glass with showy scents of creme de cassis, plum preserves, and blueberry compote leading to hints of cedar chest, menthol, rose oil, and black truffles. The full-bodied palate is jam packed with seductive black fruits framed by velvety tannins and fantastic freshness,finishing with epic length.

The 2021 Blacktail is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Petite Sirah, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot that shows how well those varieties work together in tempering some of the intense natural richness that seems to come so easily here. Sumptuous dark fruit, mocha, new oak and floral top notes blossom into the racy finish. This opulent wine is certainly a head-turner.