STAGS LEAP CABERNET FULL
To retain the wine’s full flavor complexity, the wine was bottled without fining or filtration.
Custom-toasted, very low-impact barrels of new French oak were hand-selected, which supported the. This blend was fermented separately in French oak barrels (25 new) for 19 months and blended just before bottling. After three months of aging, we blended the vineyard components then allow them to marry during the remainder of the 26 months of barrel-aging. This small bottling of Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon is a barrel selection of the most expressive lots from the Oakville appellation. A friend-of-a-friend situation lead us to the Hirondelle vineyard owned by Stags. The wine was aged in new French oak barrels to meld the bright fruit expression with oak spice nuances. The Stags Leap District wine is our first foray into this acclaimed AVA. To achieve a fresh style with lighter, supple tannins, our cellar team pressed this wine slightly earlier than for our other Cabernet Sauvignons. Rigorous pump-overs, increasing during the peak of the fermentation, developed deep color, rich varietal character and fine tannins in the wine.
We first cold-soaked the must (crushed grapes) for gentle extraction and then fermented the must in both stainless steel and Italian-made concrete fermenters at 92˚F. The grapes were hand-harvested at night-when temperatures often dip to 50˚F-to capture vibrant acidity and fruit expression in the wine. This wine is a pure and exquisite expression of the world-famous Stags Leap District AVA. Our steep, densely planted Stags Leap District estate has been the heart of the winery since Pine Ridge Vineyards was founded here in a farmhouse in 1978.
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