1992

Cabernet Sauvignon

Hyde Vineyard,
Carneros, Napa Valley

This Cabernet offers layers of concentrated fruit with remarkable depth and purity of flavor. The nose is big and forward with tremendous intensity riding on a powerful backbone of black-cherries, chocolate, herbaceous, cassis-scented fruit amid opulent spiciness and vanilla from oak. Superbly rich and velvety on the palate, this finely-balanced, supple, and complex wine complements a wide assortment of full-flavored pastas, meats and cheese dishes.

93 points
Wine Spectator

Harvest Date September 29

Growing Season Irreverent good fortune. Consistently splendid, sunny days throughout summer and into fall. Ripe, full-flavored fruit harvested earlier than the very cool 1991 vintage.

Winemaking

• Hand-harvested grapes
• Fermented in open-top stainless steel fermentors
• 5-day cold maceration, 31 days total maceration
• Fermentation with indigenous yeast
• Malo-lactic fermentation in barrels
• Aged 19-months in French oak barrels, 50% New Taransaud
• Unblended, unfined; bottled August 1994

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Cabernet Sauvignon

Hyde Vineyard,Carneros, Napa Valley

Hyde Vineyard,
Carneros, Napa Valley