This luxurious Yountville Cabernet Sauvignon displays a dense plum color and expressive fruit-forward aromas of blackberry and black currant, with sweet tobacco and toasty oak notes creating a rich and inviting nose. The palate has a fresh quality that gracefully showcases the fine-grained tannins and the dark berry and oak spice flavors as they build to a long, supple finish that will only improve with age.
The grapes were harvested on September 30, 2021. All fruit was destemmed and crushed into open-top fermenters. Daily pump-overs during a five-day cold soak released the color and tannin. During fermentation, the grapes were gently punched down twice a day to keep the fermentation temperatures moderate and the fruit healthy for extraction. During an extended maceration, we tasted the wine daily until the optimum palate balance and tannin feel were achieved. We then pressed the finished wine off the skins and aged it for 22 months in 64% new French oak barrels and 36% once-filled barrels. Bottling occurred on August 4, 2022.
The grapes were harvested on September 25, 2020. All fruit was destemmed and crushed into open-top fermenters. Daily pump-overs during a five-day cold soak released the color and tannin. During fermentation, the grapes were gently punched down twice a day to keep the fermentation temperatures moderate and the fruit healthy for extraction. During an extended maceration, we tasted the wine daily until the optimum palate balance and tannin feel were achieved. We then pressed the finished wine off the skins and aged it for 22 months in 30% new French oak barrels and 50% once-filled barrels. Bottling occurred in August 2022.
This exceptional 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon is from a prized single vineyard in the acclaimed Yountville region of Napa Valley. It features one clone, 43, grown on a historic 140-year-old vineyard site, where well-drained Bale clay loam and Coombs gravelly loam soils help to give this Cabernet its distinctive, terroir-driven character.
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