Harvest Date October 25 – November 2

Growing Season Extended cool weather and rains in spring resulted in late bud break in Napa Valley. A long, temperate growing season followed however, allowing for slow, full and even ripening of the fruit and development of tannins. Harvest of cabernet sauvignon began later than usual, running from October 11 through November 2.

Winemaking

• Hand-harvested grapes
• Fermented in 10 ton closed-top stainless steel fermentors with indigenous selected yeasts
• 5 days cold soak, 30 to 35 days total maceration
• Spontaneous malolactic fermentation in barrels; 7 months to completion
• Aged 20 months in French oak barrels from Taransaud, Seguin Moreau, Alain Fouquet, Demptos, Bossuet, Nadalie and Sylvain; 69% new
• Unfined and unfiltered; bottled June 2007
• 100% Cabernet Sauvignon