Premiere Napa Valley Live Auction

Highlights

• Your wine is 100% Sauvignon Blanc
• Sourced from our family’s heritage block in the hills of northeastern Napa Valley
• The head-trained vines are on rootstock with lineage to Bordeaux’s Château d’Yquem
• 15% of the final blend is fermenting and aging for seven months in new French oak, 85% in neutral French oak

Description

This harvest, the yield of the Michael Mondavi Family’s heritage Sauvignon Blanc block, may have been relatively small, but the plentiful flavors make up for its size in a Premiere Napa Valley lot that highlights the bright characteristics expected of this unique piece of Napa Valley history. The head-trained vines, meticulously planted by Rob Mondavi and his family in 2004, grow on rootstock originally stemming from the esteemed Château d’Yquem in Bordeaux, with cuttings first making their way to California in the 1880s with famed vintner Charles A. Wetmore. Concentration and depth are already apparent in this wine’s youth due to the classic Gobelet pruning, and a complex texture honed by French oak will evolve through aging. Stunning from the outset are the heady tropical, citrus and stone fruit aromas—guava, white peach and nectarine, zested with lime and blood orange.

Wine Facts

• Single vineyard wine
• Sustainably produced
• Wine is produced in a Napa Green winery