Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve 2021
$ 45.00Our 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.
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FOOD PAIRINGS
The great American hamburger, of black angus ground chuck, seared rare
Garlic-studded roast leg of lamb with rosemary purée
Médaillons of grilled sashimi tuna with seared foie gras
TASTING NOTES
Vigorous body and palate of Cabernet – dark berry, cassis, pepper, coffee, vanilla – with great robustness and length, but also elegant balance. A vintage of fine cellar-worthiness in our rarest wine.
Vinification
VINTAGE FACTORS
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.
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%