100 pts – Wine Advocate
The 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon Thorevilos is a monumental wine that is as brilliant as wine can possibly be. The wine has an inky purple color to the rim and an extraordinarily sweet, expansive nose of blueberries, licorice, acacia flowers, and creme de cassis with a hint of sweet oak and licorice. Phenomenal concentration, extraordinary purity, a multi-layered, full-bodied palate, and a magnificent finish of close to a minute are the stuff of legends. This is a profoundly great Cabernet Sauvignon that can be drunk young or cellared for up to two decades or more. This is a prodigious effort from Napa’s top viticulturalist – a man who has had an enormously positive impact on the quality of the finest wines of Napa Valley.
