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Wine Details
Price:
$55.00 per bottle
Description:
We have select Cabernet Sauvignon from Andy Beckstoffer's Dr. Crane vineyard in St. Helena to blend with Merlot and Cabernet Franc from his Tokalon vineyard in Oakville. Winemaker Craig MacLean hand-crafted this wine to be enjoyed now through the next 5 years.
We have selected Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley's legendary grower, Andy Beckstoffer, and his George III Vineyard, blended with 9% Mer lot and 9% Cabernet Franc from Beckstoffer's Tokalon Vineyard in Oakville. The result is an elegant blend that displays black cherry, hints of tobacco and subtle anise flavors.
Our vineyards on Spring Mountain are impossibly steep and rocky, with a southeastern exposure to ripen the tiny grape clusters. Winemaker Craig MacLean has hand-crafted our Bordeaux-styled Cabernet Sauvignon with Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. Flavors of black cherry and cassis are couched in toasty oak.
The grapes sourced from Andy Beckstoffer’s award-winning Melrose vineyard in the Napa Valley create a Sauvignon Blanc that is aromatic showing notes of melon, citrus and fig. Winemaker Craig MacLean has hand-crafted this special limited edition wine.
Flavors of citrus, melon and fig in the palate echo the aromas.
I find the vintage 2000 Juslyn wines to be amazingly complex. Though generally considered a soft drinkable vintage, these wines display a good degree of depth and length. The Napa Valley Blend should be enjoyed in the nearer term, now and through the next 5 years. The vineyard select and estate, are very approachable in their youth now, but show the potential to improve for 8-10 years.
From vineyards in the Mayacamas Mountains (the mountain range defining the west side of Napa Valley) above Yountville and the Beckstoffer Vineyard near Rutherford, this edition of our Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon marries nuances of red cherry, cassis, and vanilla with black cherry, sage, cocoa, and toast. More medium bodied than the two above, this wine has a velv
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