Gift Set: Cabernet Franc Duo

This special gift pack is being released in honor of Cabernet Franc Day!

In 2016 we planted a second block of Cabernet Franc, doubling our yield and allowing us to produce individual bottlings when the quality calls for it. The 2020 Estate Cab Franc bottling is a blend between our older Block 3 and younger Block 22 Cab Franc. The older vines produce a more restrained and elegant wine, with lighter color and texture, yet full of spicy tannin. The younger vines currently produce a more full throated, deeply colored Cab Franc full of ripe red fruit and round juicy tannin. By combining these elements, this produces a more all encompassing expression of the varietal and shows the true potential of our Estate.

 

Vinum Demere, latin for "taking of the grapes" is the root of our word for vintage. The vintage of a wine represents all the aspects of a wine's life that lead to its uniqueness. Each year, shifting environmental factors allow different sections of our Calcareous Vineyard to excel, and in 2019 it was our Block 3 Cabernet Franc. Hand picked and fully destemmed, this Cab Franc spent 17 days on skins before being racked in 100% Ermitage French Oak Barrels for 24 months.