HERITANCE CABERNET SAUVIGNON, NAPA VALLEY
This wine is a blend of grapes from premium mid-valley vineyard sites which collectively create a classic Napa Valley Cabernet. The nose reveals ripe dark fruit such as cherries and blackberries. Aging for 18 months in 100% French Oak (60% new) lends baking spice, cedar, vanilla and roasted notes.
2016
- 92 Pts. ~ JamesSuckling.com, Nov 2018
This wine is a blend of grapes from premium mid-valley vineyard sites which collectively create a classic Napa Valley Cabernet. The nose reveals ripe dark fruit such as cherries and blackberries. Aging for 18 months in 100% French Oak (60% new) lends baking spice, cedar, vanilla and roasted notes.
2016
- 92 Pts. ~ JamesSuckling.com, Nov 2018
This wine is a blend of premium, mid-valley sites in Oakville with bale clay loam soils, clones 4,7,337,2, 18 year old vines. St Helena, with Pleasanton gravelly loams, clone 7, 8, 337, 18 year old vines average. Rutherford with bale clay loams, clones 4, 7, 337, 2, average 18 year old vines. Howell Mountain with pyroclastic, volcanic soils, 15 years old on average. And Mount Veeder with sedimentary soils and 25 year old vines.
Hand-sorted, destemmed fruit. Select Bordeaux yeast isolates are used for primary fermentation in tank. Malolactic fermentation takes place in barrel on fermentation lees. The wine is aged for 18 months in 100% French Oak (60% new) which lends vanilla and roasted notes.
This wine has ripe dark fruit such as cherries and blackberries. The oak is well integrated with baking spice and subtle cedar notes. The medium, chewy tannins display a long flavorful finish.
