Our Estate Grown wines are blended using only the finest lots from our Napa Valley Estate Program, which is comprised of seven properties totaling 175 planted vine acres and featuring a diversity of soil types, elevations and microclimates. These mountain and valley floor vineyards are meticulously farmed by our experienced in-house vineyard team to ensure excellence throughout the viticultural process. The team harvests the grapes at optimal maturity, going through vineyard sites several times, ...

25% Merlot. Smelling variously of ripe berries, toast and dusty earth spice, but a bit loose in clear varietal focus just now and blunted by formidable tannins, this bottling starts out fairly well but dries at the end, and it demands patience without any clear assurance of beauty.

Rating for United States-California: 95 (slightly better than average year)<br/><br/>Drinkability: too young, let it sit<br/>

Gift from Nima Christmas 2008<br/>Excellent, smooth, full. <br/>

Great mid complexity Cabernet. Cook's Thanksgiving 2008

Gift from CitiNational XMAS 2009

At Bass Lake. August 2009.

At Donnovan's in San Diego