2022 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

Wine Maker Comments:

Made from the oldest vines on the estate, this Cabernet displays some of the most developed flavors and structure that the property has to offer. This wine should evolve nicely for 7-8 years.

Vinification:

This wine is a selection of our two favorite barrels of Cabernet Sauvignon. We create two lots of Cabernet each year, one from Block 4 and another from Block 8 on the Sea Shell vineyard.  This particular year we liked how the Block 4 Cab was presenting and chose to use it in our premium Reserve Cabernet label. The Block 4 Cabernet came in on September 16th, and was hand sorted, destemmed, and lightly crushed into 7-ton tank and one open-top fermenter. The must was then inoculated with yeast and fermented at a target temperature of 85 degrees F and pumped over and punched down twice daily until the end of fermentation. The wine was then pressed off the skins into tanks to settle for a few days. The wines were then racked off the settled-out sediment and pumped into French oak barrrels. The wine was put through maloactic fermentation and lived in French oak barrels for 18 months until bottling.

Lauren Lange

Soil Type:

Rolling alluvial terraces with decomposed limestone deposits along its slopes.