Harvest Date October 9 – October 22

Growing Season The long, cool summer in Napa Valley promoted excellent flavor retention in the grapes, with high acidity and low pH. The warm Indian summer weather in October fully ripened the fruit to produce some of the best wines of the decade.

Winemaking

• Hand-harvested grapes
• Fermented in small, open-top stainless steel fermentors
• 4-5-day cold maceration, 21 days total maceration
• Fermentation with indigenous yeast
• Spontaneous malolactic fermentation in barrel
• Aged 19-months in Demptos and Taransaud French oak barrels, 55% new
• Unfined and unfiltered; bottled August 2001
• Varietal Composition: Cabernet Sauvignon 90% / Merlot 10%