Ghost Block Estate Wines
Maratona
2021 Cabernet Sauvignon
Yountville
Auction 27 | Lot No. 50
Vintage: 2021
Ghost Block Estate Wines
Maratona
Cabernet Sauvignon
Yountville
5 cases produced
Highlights
- Your wine is a special “Maratona” blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec and Petit Verdot from the Yountville nested appellation
- Celebrating 120 years of harvesting grapes in the Napa Valley—“life is a marathon, not a sprint”
- Cabernet Sauvignon is sourced from our Ghost Block Vineyard; the Petit Verdot and Malbec are from BlockHouse Vineyard
- 100% organically grown grapes from our family-owned Yountville vineyards
Description
This wine is made from our best blocks from our best vineyards: Ghost Block and BlockHouse, both located in the Yountville nested appellation. A beautiful red blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Malbec and 25% Petit Verdot, your wine has balance and strength, with lush tannins. It is aging for about 20 months in new French oak. This is sure to be a special bottle to savor for that perfect occasion.
Wine Facts
- Organically produced (also commonly called "organically grown")
- Wine is 100% estate grown and bottled
Kristi Koford
Winemaker, Ghost Block Estate Wines
Born in Berkeley and raised primarily outside the US as her father traveled the world studying wild animal behavior. Kristi Koford's intention when studying biology at UC Santa Cruz was to follow in her father's footsteps. Instead, she found herself attempting to grow wild mushrooms on a farm in Lodi. When not mushrooming, she worked in the vineyard, pruning, picking, driving farm machinery and making wine. This led to her first real job in the wine industry as a microbiologist for Robert Mondavi Winery in Oakville. Under the tutelage of Zelma Long and the University of Mondavi, she became Senior Enologist, directing the work in the cellar and laboratory. After ten years, she took four years off and, with her husband, built a hand made timber frame house in the Oakville hills. She returned to wine work as Assistant Winemaker when St. Supery opened in 1988 then as Winemaker at Alderbrook Winery in 1997. She joined the staff of Napa Wine Company in 2001 as Production Winemaker and assisted Rob Lawson in making the Ghost Block wines until 2016 when she became the Ghost Block winemaker.
Country born: United States
Education: Kristi Koford's intention when studying biology at UC Santa Cruz was to follow in her father's footsteps. Instead, she found herself attempting to grow wild mushrooms on a farm in Lodi. When not mushrooming, she worked in the vineyard, pruning, picking, driving farm machinery and making wine.
Years in the wine industry: 20-30 years
Winemaking Philosophy:
Napa Wine Company's unique mission and client base gives me the opportunity to exercise my technical knowledge and resource management skills in a mutually beneficial and fulfilling way. I am also using my early multicultural experiences and behavioral studies in ways I never envisioned. Life, like wine, proceeds in mysterious ways. Making Ghost Block wines is the culmination of a lifelong dream, working with some of the best grapes in one of the best wine growing regions in the world.
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