Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve
Our rarest wine, the Reserve Cabernet will age at great length and respond to the highest demands for varietal expression. The wine is based on a grape selection identified by long experience as the finest for our growing region, and grown in specially selected small vineyard blocks. It is aged at least a full year in old and new French oak barriques crafted for us in Piemonte, Italy. The sharing of a bottle of this wine contributes an occasion of its own, to pair with any celebration.
Vintage Factors
Year
2019
Cellar Life
20yrs
We will be celebrating this year’s growing season for many years to come, for giving us white wines of great intensity and fragrance, and reds of unquestionably long age-worthiness. The whole season was ideal, from a frost-free spring with abundant moisture, to a summer with moderate rainfall and steady warm temperature building to extended, emphatic heat, with clear skies permitting optimum pacing of picking in the early fall.
Awards
Critics Challenge International WC, 2021 | Gold Medal, 90 Points |
Vinification
Fermentation | 6-8 days on the skins in stainless steel |
Maceration | 10-12 days |
Aging | 12 months new and used French oak barriques |
Composition | Cabernet Sauvignon 90%, Petit Verdot 10% |
Analysis | Alcohol, 13.5% |
Residual Sugars, 0.2% | |
Total Acidity, 0.53% |