Enticing flavors of ripe red raspberries, tart cherries, blueberries, violet pastilles and crushed mint excite the senses and provoke the intellect. The texture is layered and unctuous, expressing both ripe fruit and balanced acidity with a crescendo of fully ripe fine tannins. A beautiful rendition of our Cab Franc.

While cabernet franc is universally associated with lingering herbaceous flavors, our mountaintop's long days of summer sunshine, including warm mornings and cool afternoons, allow the fruit to ripen slowly and develop gorgeous fruit and floral flavors with no green notes whatsoever. These four vineyard blocks were hand-picked at night over the last week of October, nearly the last grapes to be harvested from the 2019 vintage. To this pretty core, we added 6% cabernet sauvignon to build the mid-palate and finish.

Updated notes from July 2022:

From the moment it came into being, the 2019 Cab Franc expressed greater density and darker flavor nuances wrapped around its central core of red fruit than we often see.  This has not changed in the ensuing year in bottle.  Ripe cherries, damson plums, black tea, violet pastilles and black licorice give way to a concentrated palate that elicits gravitas without any chalky bite.  Simply gorgeous and one of our favorites ever.