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Appellation: |
Napa Valley, Spring Mountain District |
Vineyards: |
Wildwood 28%, Spottswoode 27%, Spring Mountain Vineyard Spottswoode 23%, Martha's 22% |
Varietals: |
Cabernet Sauvignon 77%, Merlot 15%, Cabernet Franc 8% |
Aged: |
22
Months |
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Winemaker Notes |
| Deep, dark purple ruby color, developed Cabernet aroma,
bottle bouquet. Big broad tannins, good balance. A lot of intensity and concentration and a long finish. This wine is impressive and drinking well right now, but
it has the fruit to improve further with bottle age. |
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The 1985 Vintage |
| Mostly Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon with a few percent
Merlot and Cabernet Franc. The last year of Cabernet
from Wildwood in Rutherford. 1985 was a great vintage
valley wide, noted for deep color and bright fruit aromas. |
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Spring Mountain Estate |
| Grapes from each of the four vineyard properties are considered
as we select the lots to be used in our Estate Cabernet
Sauvignon. The multitude of top quality lots with
distinctly different attributes allows us to be extremely
selective in making the final blend. The result is
a true Estate Cabernet Sauvignon that reflects the unique
growing conditions of the Spring Mountain growing district. |
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Spring Mountain Vineyard |
| Originally four individual historic Napa Valley properties, Miravalle, La Perla, Alba, and Chevalier have now been combined to create an 850 acre estate of forest and vineyard on the eastern slopes of Spring Mountain overlooking the small town of Saint Helena. Over 225 acres of the estate are planted to vine, creating 135 separate hillside vineyard blocks each with its own unique soil, exposure, and microclimate. The vineyard is planted in densities of 4,000 vines per acre and trained to the ancient gobelet form, a vertical trellising method that was invented in an earlier millennium by the Romans. |
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