Tasting Notes

The 2022 Robert Craig Winery La Fleur Cabernet Sauvignon exhibits deep, saturated color along with spicy, black fruit up front and a sturdy backbone of mineral and tannin. A significant amount of time in new French Oak barrels have rounded out the edges of this
young Cabernet and given it a suppleness and integration that can’t be found with less expensive American oak or the dreaded barrel stave flavor treatment. Our La Fleur Cabernet is supple enough to enjoy immediately though it has the structure to benefit from additional cellaring.

About the Wine

At Robert Craig Winery we have always celebrated wines that invite wine lovers into high levels of quality without punitive prices. Such is the case with our “La Fleur” Cabernet Sauvignon that is a blend of young vine lots from our Napa Valley Estate vineyards on Howell Mountain and Mount Veeder along with contracted fruit from a singular property on Moon Mountain in Sonoma Valley. Just as “Flor de Pingus” and La Fleur Petrus are indicative of second tier offerings, so it goes with our La Fleur Cabernet Sauvignon.

This wine is primarily intended as a Monday through Thursday wine to accompany home cooked meals for our wine club members and mailing list customers. La Fleur Cabernet is also a terrific opportunity for fine restaurants to offer something to their customers at a fair price point that is of the highest quality, rather than an assemblage of corporate gallons favoring minimal cost-to-produce over quality.

Blend: 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot, 3% Malbec