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Wine Details
Price:
$80.00 per bottle
Description:
This is the first wine to be made entirely in our new gravity-flow winery. We are now able to treat the grapes and wine with the utmost care, enabling us to make wines that are more detailed, vibrant, and lush. We feel that something special happened in 2002, and the result is our most luscious, complex, and complete wine to date.
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Varietal Definition
Cabernet Sauvignon:
Cabernet Sauvignon is the most widely planted and significant among the five dominant varieties in France’s Bordeaux region, as well as the most successful red wine produced in California. Though it was thought to be an ancient variety, recent genetic studies at U.C. Davis have determined that Cabernet Sauvignon is actually the hybrid offspring of Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Franc. Cabernet Sauvignon berries are small with black, thick and very tough skin. This toughness makes the grapes fairly resistant to disease and spoilage and able to withstand some autumn rains with little or no damage. It is a mid to late season ripener. These growth characteristics, along with its flavor appeal have made Cabernet Sauvignon one of the most popular red wine varieties worldwide.
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