Our Cabernet Sauvignon garners its distinctive style from the diverse vineyards found in the mountains, bench lands, and valley floor of Napa Valley. The well drained, nutrient deprived soils found in each of these topographies stresses the vines, resulting in grapes with extraordinary color, texture, and flavor concentration.
Blending these grapes allows us to bring together the unique terroir of each location and craft a wine that's greater than the sum of its parts, marrying the firm tannins and weight of the mountains with the supple fruit forward notes of the valley floor while maintaining natural acidity.
For our 2017 Napa Valley Quilt Reserve, we tasted the developing wine throughout the fermentation and aging processes, then set aside the best 2% for this reserve bottling. Our lot selection was based on intensity, complexity and boldness of expression that could withstand a longer aging cycle and heavier use of new French oak.