2021 Cabernet Sauvignon

100% Cabernet Sauvignon

100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon grown organically at two vineyards in Dry Creek Valley — 54% from Vinegrove Vineyard and 46% from Martorana Vineyard. Vinegrove Vineyard sits in a little pocket in the hills above West Dry Creek Road. The vineyard is in a secluded glen with gravelly Laughlin loam soil on varying aspects. The vines were originally planted about 30 years ago. Martorana Vineyard is a new source for us and is precision farmed on the flats famous for Zinfandel near Rafanelli.

This vintage is easily one of the sexiest Cabernet Sauvignons we have made – rich and supple yet classic in character. An incredible food wine but also an element of intrigue so you can dive in and enjoy it. It has vibrant aromas of cassis, cocoa nibs, and black cherry with subtle notes of licorice and gunpowder. On the palate you’ll find bright and intense black cherry, blackberry, with cocoa and violets. It has a seamless midpalate with fine minerality balanced acidity and refined tannins that lead to a long finish. This beauty will only improve over the next eight years, and will drink well far beyond that.

We hand-picked the fruit on September 10 and 14th, 2021, then destemmed the grapes into small stainless-steel tanks for fermentation. We sealed the tanks for 10 days before punching down to allow the native fermentation to start whilst avoiding air to encourage bacterial growth. We continued with light punchdowns until the must was dry. At dryness, we sealed the tanks back up for a week of extended maceration at cool temperatures; after which we drained and pressed the tanks. We kept only the free-drain wine for this bottling and aged it in 255-liter Bordeaux barrels, Two of which were new. We aged the wine for 26 months in a cool room where the wines underwent native malo-lactic fermentation. We racked the barrels about a month before bottling and then back to clean barrels. We racked again a few days before bottling and the wine was limpid. This is our method of creating wines that are clean without being filtered. We bottled without fining or filtration.

Production: 120 cases 750mL | Alc: 14.4% | TA: 6.6 g/L | pH: 3.56 | VA: .77 g/L | RS: 0.45 g/L | Total SO2: 78 ppm | Turbidity at bottling: 12 NTU

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