All Red Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon (78% new French oak), the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Four Flags showed brilliantly, offering a Pauillac-like nose of smoky red and blue fruits, lead pencil, and tobacco. Medium to full-bodied, beautifully balanced, and concentrated, it has lots of velvety tannins, a stacked mid-palate, and a great finish. It ranks with the top Cabernets from the appellation and is a stunning wine. Drink bottles over the coming 20-25 years.

Displaying a magenta core, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Four Flags blossoms in the glass with elements of cinnamon-spiced cherries, crème de cassis and plum reduction with a floral and dusty essence. Medium to full-bodied, this 100% Cabernet is ripe with a firm tannic edge while offering flavors of blackberry jus and a steady mineral-laced sensation across the mid-palate. The wine glides to an elongated finish with lasting flavors of graphite, black plum and dusty flowers. Only 1,800 bottles were filled after the wine rested for 20 months in French oak, 78% first fill. Give it a try.

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.