Harvest Date November 2

Growing Season Extended cool weather and rains in spring did not delay bud break in Carneros as was the case in other parts of the Napa Valley. This combined with the long, temperate growing season that followed, allowed for slow, full and even ripening of the fruit and development of tannins.

Winemaking

• Hand-harvested grapes
• Fermented in a single 5-ton closed-top stainless steel fermentor with indigenous yeasts
• 5-day cold soak, 34 days total maceration
• Spontaneous malolactic fermentation in barrels; 6 months to completion
• Aged 20 months in French oak barrels from Taransaud, Seguin Moreau, Alain Fouquet, Demptos; 87% new
• Varietal composition: 100% cabernet sauvignon
• Unblended, unfined and unfiltered; Bottled June 2007