1995

Cabernet Sauvignon

Hyde Vineyard,
Carneros, Napa Valley

This Cabernet offers generous 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 cherry, dark chocolate and herbaceous, cassis–scented fruit amid opulent spiciness and vanilla from oak. Superbly rich and velvety on the palate, this finely balanced wine complements a wide assortment of full-flavored pastas, meats and cheese dishes.

Harvest Date October 17 & 24

Growing Season Early bloom and moderate, uniform weather conditions throughout the growing season; long and even maturation period. Skin tannins appeared harder and more drying than 1994; less pigmentation.

Winemaking

• Hand-harvested grapes
• Fermented in open-top stainless steel fermentors
• 5-day cold maceration, 33 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 1997

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Cabernet Sauvignon

Hyde Vineyard,Carneros, Napa Valley

Hyde Vineyard,
Carneros, Napa Valley