This Month's Featured Wine: 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon, Madroña Vineyard
Planted in 1973, this 6-acre vineyard of Cabernet Sauvignon is positively unique. The vineyard drapes across a slight crown in the terrain, gently sloping both east and west. This diversity in exposures at 3,000-foot elevation produces grapes with incredible complexity and classic mountain Cabernet characters. Low yields of 2-3 tons per acre due to the age of the vines combined with particular attention paid to leaf-thinning and balance gives us wines with depth, density and amazing color. And for the purists, this Cabernet Sauvignon is all own-rooted.
Madroña Single Vineyard wines are small lot offerings sourcing distinctive fruit from each of our three vineyards – Madroña Vineyard, Enyé Vineyard and Sumu-Kaw Vineyard. Each highlights the unique varietal characteristics and terroir of the specific vineyard site from which the fruit is harvested.
As we taste through the barrels before final blending, we invariably come across a barrel that is positively special. The character may be intense, subtle, unusually fruity or complex. It screams to be bottled separately to retain the unique aspects that show the exquisite nature of our diverse vineyards. Single vineyard lots, which are traditionally bottled unfined and unfiltered, exhibit a purity and a sense of place seldom seen in California wine. Click here to purchase
This Month's Featured Wine:
2006 Cabernet Sauvignon,
Madroña Vineyard
Planted in 1973, this 6-acre vineyard of Cabernet Sauvignon is positively unique. The vineyard drapes across a slight crown in the terrain, gently sloping both east and west. This diversity in exposures at 3,000-foot elevation produces grapes with incredible complexity and classic mountain Cabernet characters. Low yields of 2-3 tons per acre due to the age of the vines combined with particular attention paid to leaf-thinning and balance gives us wines with depth, density and amazing color. And for the purists, this Cabernet Sauvignon is all own-rooted.
Madroña Single Vineyard wines are small lot offerings sourcing distinctive fruit from each of our three vineyards – Madroña Vineyard, Enyé Vineyard and Sumu-Kaw Vineyard. Each highlights the unique varietal characteristics and terroir of the specific vineyard site from which the fruit is harvested.
As we taste through the barrels before final blending, we invariably come across a barrel that is positively special. The character may be intense, subtle, unusually fruity or complex. It screams to be bottled separately to retain the unique aspects that show the exquisite nature of our diverse vineyards. Single vineyard lots, which are traditionally bottled unfined and unfiltered, exhibit a purity and a sense of place seldom seen in California wine.
Click here to purchase
Madroña Vineyard
Madroña Vineyard
Enyé Vineyard
Madroña Vineyard
Madroña Vineyard