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Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon

Rutherford doesn't give you an easy vintage. It gives you the truth, concentrated, honest, and shaped by whatever the year demanded. In 2020, it demanded everything.

This is the wine that almost wasn't. In 2020, Napa Valley faced fires, smoke, and a harvest window that demanded the kind of split-second judgment only experience can teach. The winemakers who moved fast, who read the fires, trusted their fruit, and harvested before the heaviest smoke arrived made something extraordinary. This is that wine.

The Rutherford AVA sits at the sun-baked heart of Napa Valley, where alluvial benchland soils concentrate the fruit and the legendary coastal air shapes every sip with what locals call Rutherford dust: a dry, earthy minerality so specific to this appellation that no other place on earth can replicate it.

Wine Details

Appellation Rutherford, Napa Valley
Vintage 2020
Alcohol 15.2% Vol
Volume 750 mL
Bottled Napa, CA
Contains Sulfites

Tasting Notes

Tasting Notes Cabernet Sauvignon · Rutherford · 2020
Color Deep garnet with an inky, amethyst-purple core
Nose Blackberry, black cherry, wild violet, graphite, cedar, whisper of espresso
Palate Full-bodied, velvety tannins, dark plum, cassis, baking spice, signature Rutherford dust
Finish Long, dry, persistent, with a final lift of vanilla and toasted oak
Decant 30–45 minutes · Serve at 60–65°F
Cellar Drinking beautifully now · Ages 8–12 years

Serve & Pair

 

♨ Braised Short Rib Dark fruit and firm tannins built for slow-cooked, rich beef.
◈ Aged Cheddar Sharp aged cheese pulls out the graphite and espresso notes beautifully.
♡ Dark Chocolate 70%+ cacao echoes the mocha undercurrent, made for the end of a long evening.

672 bottles made. Once this vintage is gone, this chapter closes permanently. No reprint. No second run.
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