Premiere Napa Valley Live Auction

Highlights

• A barrel selection of 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from the oldest vines on the family-run Seavey Vineyard estate
• Estate-grown wine that was hand-farmed, hand-harvested and handcrafted
• This is hillside Cabernet Sauvignon that balances its concentration and raw power with freshness and elegance
• Terraced vines planted in 1983 yield a tiny harvest that is ideal for your exclusive wine

Description

With each passing vintage, our matriarch vines that were planted on rough, terraced hillsides in 1983 produce stubbornly small yields of grapes. We care for these old vines on an individual basis in order to ensure we can make at least a full barrel of wine each vintage. The reward for this enduring care of the vines is a Cabernet Sauvignon framed with bold tannins, yet balanced by the expanding layers of flavor and hallmark savory appeal. Such a scant yield of wine is not enough for a commercial offering, but Premiere Napa Valley presents the opportunity to showcase this exclusive bottling from Seavey Vineyard. Seavey Vineyard’s longtime winemaker, Jim Duane, has worked with Seavey’s 40 acres of estate vines to ensure that each parcel is farmed to optimize grape texture and flavor maturation given its soil, aspect, clonal selection and vine age. Seavey’s vineyard manager, Luis Ruiz, cares for the vines all the way through their harvest in the cool of the night. Grapes are hand-harvested, sorted, fermented whole berry, and then barrel-aged in the solar-powered winery a few hundred feet from where the grapes were grown.

Wine Facts

• Wine is unfiltered
• Single vineyard wine
• Sustainably produced
• Organically produced (also commonly called "organically grown")
• Wine is 100% estate grown and bottled
• Wine is produced in a Napa Green winery