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Wine Details
Price:
$48.00 per bottle
Description:
We began planting our Conn Valley ranch soon after we purchased the property in 1984, but our farming practices changed drastically in 1995. Dave Abreu took over as vineyard manager that year, just after we had purchased a steep, six-acre hillside parcel from a neighbor. Abreu convinced us that the parcel was ideal for a Bordeaux-style Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard -- tightly spaced, low to the ground and vertically trellised. Although the decision to proceed seems obvious now, the combination of the enormous development costs involved and the additional time necessary to bring the vineyard to crop-bearing age weighed heavily on us for the first several years. In 1999 we harvested our first crop from this new vineyard -- we refer to it as ‘The Knoll’ -- but elected to add the wine to our Merlot. We did so again in both 2000 and 2001. In 2002, the vines were 8 years old, and we produced our first ever estate bottled Cabernet Sauvignon, 200 cases from the entire parcel. Was it ever worth the wait! Shallow, rocky soils like ours tend to produce Cabernet Sauvignon of grace and finesse. There is plenty of that here. But it’s still packed with flavor and loaded with complex berry fruit. A client of ours, a longtime French wine merchant, tasted it recently, and described it as ‘Seamless’.
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