The 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon Bosché comes from a vineyard that sits on the gravelly, stony soils of the Rutherford Bench. It is 91% Cabernet Sauvignon and 9% Merlot, aged 24 months in French oak prior to bottling. This wine shows plenty of new, velvety glove leather, cedar wood, kirsch and blacker currants. It is full-bodied, ripe, but wonderfully elegant and pure, with a voluptuous texture. This vineyard is totally dry-farmed. Drink over the next 15+ years. These are all classically styled wines. Of course, long-time winemaker Ted Edwards is still steering the fortunes of this historic producer. All three of the 2005s are still amazingly youthful wines at age ten.