The bouquet of ripe black cherry and chocolate is spiced with peppery herbs and vanilla. Flavors are plump cherry and cream with blackberry and spice. The grapes for this wine are from the Kenefick and Palisades vineyards. Head pruned 78 year old vines have provided wonderful fruit to create a rich, supple, and elegant wine. This wine has a dense inky color and a spicy peppery bouquet.
Flavors are of black currant, pepper and ripe cherries.
This wine should age very nicely. The grapes for this wine were harvested in mid-November 1992 from a small ranch in the Russian River Valley. Fermentation was long and slow accompanied by a daily hole being dug and the fermenting juice hand poured over the cap. The wine was pressed after 4 weeks on the skins. This wine is a wonderful example of a big style Napa Cabernet that has received extended barrel aging and was just bottled in July 1994.