Leonetti Serra Pedace 2017

The 2017 Serra Pedace is also from a Walla Walla site and has a modern bouquet of sweet crème de cassis, violets, spicy oak, and baking spices that just leaps out of the glass. These all carry to a full-bodied red that has wonderful purity of fruit, loads of mouthcoating tannins, a great mid-palate, and loads of minerality on the finish. This beauty is going to benefit from 3-4 years of bottle age to integrate its oak and have 25+ years of overall longevity.


Coming from the winery's terraced vineyard in the SeVein project, this is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. The aromas are penetrating, with notes of raspberry, dark cherry, spice and scorched earth. The flavors explode across the palate, while bringing richness, restraint, and balance. The tannins give a quite firm handshake, showing some rusticity, with bright acids right there beside them. It's a classically styled wine that is near impenetrable right now, with the tannins up front. But it has the stuffing for an easy two or more decades of enjoyment. Best from 2030–2040.