Vintage
We’ve worked with Cabernet Franc since 2001 but never bottled any separately until the 2012 vintage, which was too striking to blend entirely away. The 2018, a vintage very reminiscent of the ’12, marks our second-ever bottling of pure Cab Franc.
Harvest Date: Sept 17
Brix: 25.2˚
Soil: Just up the hill from our Pedregal Vineyard, this site is similarly rocky, with iron-rich red soil filling in between decomposing basalt boulders.
AVA: Oakville
Winemaking
Varietal Composition: 100% Cabernet Franc
Fermentation: Native-yeast and full, natural malolactic fermentations
Aging: After aging sur lies with bi-monthly bâtonnage for 20 months in new French barrels from Taransaud, the Cabernet Franc was artisanally fined with egg white and bottled without filtration in June 2020.
