Chappellet Signature Cabernet Sauvignon is a distinguished Napa Valley wine that has been the winery's foundational offering for over five decades, serving as a benchmark for long-lived hillside wines. This wine showcases beautifully dark and concentrated characteristics with luxurious aromas of blackcurrant, dark cherry, spiced plum, chocolate, and sweet baking spices, layered with hints of toasted oak, cedar, aged tobacco, and mountain sage.

The structure is seamlessly silky and full-bodied, with supple tannins framing ripe dark berry and black currant flavors. Sophisticated hints of espresso, cedar cigar box, anise, and fresh herbs emerge throughout the long resonating finish, adding nuance and depth. The dry rocky soils of Pritchard Hill produce small intensely flavorful grapes, while careful crop thinning allows for full even ripening and elevates flavor complexity.

This Cabernet Sauvignon blend typically consists of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Petit Verdot, 7% Malbec, and 2% Merlot. The wine has received excellent professional ratings including 93 points from Jeb Dunnuck who praised it as a killer wine and great value with tons of cassis and darker fruits, 93 points from Wilfred Wong of Wine.com, and 92 points from Robert Parker's Wine Advocate. The winemaker notes describe it as beautifully generous and layered with robust mountain structure and a long finish.