Winemaker Notes

Deep garnet. Rich notes of chocolate, black currant, ripe blackberry, and marionberry intertwined with caramel and leather. A complex and bold assemblage of dark currant, blackberry, marionberry, and toasted hazelnut balanced with hints of cardamom and dry dark chocolate. Beautifully rounded and unctuous with a velvety mouth-feel. This refined wine is a sensational expression of what a Napa Valley Cabernet represents with its smooth long finish and fine-grained tannins.

Pair with: Prime rib with sautéed mushrooms, pepper crusted grilled lamb, or short ribs with garlic polenta.

About the Wine

Our Cabernet Sauvignon garners its distinctive style from the diverse vineyards found in the mountains, bench lands, and valley floor of Napa Valley. The well-drained, nutrient-deprived soils found in each of these topographies stresses the vines, resulting in grapes with extraordinary color, texture, and flavor concentration. Blending these grapes allows us to bring together the unique terroir of each location and craft a wine that's greater than the sum of its parts, marrying the rm tannins and weight of the mountains with the supple fruit-forward notes of the valley floor while maintaining natural acidity.

For our 2018 Napa Valley Quilt Reserve, we tasted the developing wine throughout the fermentation and aging processes, then set aside the best 2% for this reserve bottling. Our lot selection was based on intensity, complexity and boldness of expression that could withstand a longer aging cycle and heavier use of new French oak.

Winemaker's Notes

For this Reserve wine, the winemaking begins when we call a pick. Regular visits and assessment of each block direct us to harvesting at the right moment. Our assessment consists of testing sugar levels, acidity and pH, but more importantly, waiting for phenolic/physiological maturity. We want to see hard, brown seeds, copper canes, and yellowing of the canopy with some slight dimpling from dehydration on the skins. is gives us the assurance we will have no green tones in the resulting wine and the structure and intensity will be at its height. 

Our final blend (100% Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon) is the result of numerous blind tastings and is the pinnacle of our Cabernet Sauvignon production.