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2016 Cabernet Sauvignon
Classic mountain Cab, this wine expresses cassis, chocolate, black cherry, mint, coffee and black tea notes. The palate is lush and uber-concentrated, with just enough acidity to add a liveliness to the texture and plenty of supple tannin for both a long smooth finish and long-term aging potential.
The 2016 vintage, in contrast to its contemporaries 2015 and 2017, was entirely drama-free. Excellent weather from bud-break through harvest contributed to the development of grapes that achieved full physiological ripeness. The vintage concluded smoothly, with cabernet sauvignon grapes night-harvested between October 7th and October 28th. Twenty-one individual wine lots were fermented in stainless steel vats for 14 – 25 days and were then gently pressed to French oak barrels, 50% new, for 19 months of barrel aging. During the assembly of the final blend, 7% Merlot from our Lower Mountain Top vineyard block (which is the primary source of our Vintner Select Merlot and Reserve Claret wines) and 5% Petit Verdot were selected to add roundness, red fruit notes, spice, and acidity.
| Appellation: | 76% Napa/ 24% Sonoma |
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| Vintage: | 2016 |
| Harvest: | October 2016 |
| Fermentation: | Stainless Steel |
| Cooperage: | French Oak |
| Blend: | 88% Cabernet Sauvignon 7% Merlot 5% Petit Verdot |
| Alcohol: | 14.4% |
| Bottling: | July 2018 |
| Production: | 6035 cases |
| Release Date: | November 2018 |
| Release Price: | $74.00 |
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