St. Supéry Estate Vineyards & Winery
2023 Cabernet Sauvignon
"Estate Bottled"
Rutherford AVA
Auction 29 | Lot No. 91
Vintage: 2023
St. Supéry Estate Vineyards & Winery
Cabernet Sauvignon
Rutherford
10 cases produced
Highlights
- A Rutherford single-vineyard collaboration between winemakers Michael Scholz and Michel Rolland
- Napa Green Certified Cabernet Sauvignon blended with Merlot, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc
- Fermented in concrete and oak barrels, then aging 20 months in a new Taransaud French oak barrel
- Concentrated cassis, black plum and dusty cocoa with elegant tannin, structure and length
Description
Combining the traditions of Bordeaux with the innovation of Napa Valley, the St. Supéry Premiere Napa Valley 2025 wine lot is a collaboration between winemakers Michael Scholz and Michel Rolland. Their long-term blending of wines created a single-vineyard 2023 vintage Cabernet Sauvignon blended with elements of Merlot, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc to reflect the distinctive terroir of the winery’s Rutherford Estate. The fruit was fermented in concrete tanks and oak barrels before aging in a new Taransaud French oak barrel. The resulting wine is a classic Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon with concentrated cassis and black plum followed by notes of dusty cocoa with elegant tannin, structure and length. This vineyard location is Napa Green Certified Vineyard - Gold Level. St. Supéry’s commitment to sustainability helps secure the health of the land they steward, for continued production of the finest estate wines for years to come.
Wine Facts
- Single vineyard wine
- Sustainably produced
- Wine is 100% estate grown and bottled
Michael Scholz
Winemaker, St. Supéry Estate Vineyards & Winery
Michael was raised on a vineyard in Australia's Barossa Valley that his family settled six generations ago in 1845. While Michael's informal wine industry training began in childhood, his winemaking career formally began in the mid-1980s.
Over the course of the past thirty years, Michael has progressed from cellar hand to Vice President, Winemaker at St. Supéry, where he built a state-of-the-art winery, which employs techniques of double hand sorting with old world punch down maceration in small lot open top fermenters, along with the more recent technologies, including optical sorting. Michael first worked as St. Supéry's winemaker from 1996 to 2001 and returned as the winemaker again in 2009 after a sabbatical where he expanded his scope by building a winery and planting a mountain vineyard. During his tenure at St. Supéry, he has been instrumental in the continuous improvements to both the Dollarhide Estate Vineyard and the winemaking program. Michael created the distinctive style that made the winery a benchmark producer of Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc, and developed our first Bordeaux varietal-based blends.
Michael's credentials include accolades from some of the most esteemed experts in the industry, including oenologist and consultant Michel Rolland, with whom he collaborated with to help develop St. Supéry's proprietary red and white Bordeaux varietal blends, Élu and Virtú. Rolland says, "Michael Scholz is on my list of great winemakers from around the world."
Country born: Australia
Education: Roseworthy College (now a part of the University of Adelaide)
Years in the wine industry: 30+ years
Winemaking Philosophy:
The winemaker's choice of oak is like a chef's choice of ingredients. The barrels give us an opportunity to enhance expression and encourage structure and maturity. The natural combination of the soil, the harvest season and the oak form the future of what you'll taste in two years, or many years later.
Michel Rolland
Winemaker, St. Supéry Estate Vineyards & Winery
Michel began his work as an oenologist in 1973, a time when modern wine was in its infancy. In 1985 he was offered the opportunity to study the ways to maximize the potential of California's wines, and his life as a global winemaking consultant began. He has since worked on four continents, more than a dozen countries, and over 150 different proprieties. Michel continues to advise clients around the world, in addition to serving as the winemaker for properties in Argentina and Bordeaux.
Country born: France
Education: University of Bordeaux
Years in the wine industry: 30+ years
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Winery Distribution
St. Supéry Estate Vineyards & Winery is distributed in the following markets. Please contact the winery directly for the most up-to-date distribution information and to explore commercial opportunities.
Domestic:
- Alabama (Pinnacle Imports, Inc.)
- Arizona (Republic National Distributing)
- California (Republic National Distributing)
- Colorado (Republic National Distributing)
- Connecticut (Brescome Barton, Inc.)
- Florida (Republic National Distributing)
- Georgia (Republic National Distributing)
- Hawaii (Republic National Distributing)
- Idaho (Hayden Beverage Company)
- Illinois (Southern Glazer's W&S Illinois)
- Indiana (Republic National Distributing)
- Iowa (Johnson Brothers)
- Kansas (Standard Beverage Corporation)
- Kentucky (Republic National Distributing)
- Louisiana (Republic National Distributing)
- Maine (Maine Distributors)
- Maine (National Distributors, Inc.)
- Maryland (Montgomery Department Of L.B. )
- Maryland (Republic National Distributing)
- Massachusetts (Carolina Wines)
- Michigan (Republic National Distributing)
- Minnesota (Small Lot Wine)
- Mississippi (Mississippi ABC)
- Montana (Fun Beverage, Inc.)
- Montana (Intermountain Distributing)
- Montana (Summit Beverage Company)
- Nebraska (Johnson Brothers)
- Nevada (Breakthru Beverage Nevada Reno, LLC )
- New Hampshire (Martignetti Companies of NH)
- New Jersey (Fedway Associates, Inc.)
- New Mexico (Republic National Distributing)
- North Carolina ( Johnson Brothers - Mutual of North Carolina)
- North Dakota (Republic National Distributing)
- Ohio (Vintage Wine Distributor)
- Oklahoma (Southern Glazer's W&S)
- Oregon (Republic National Distributing)
- Pennsylvania (Vintage Imports)
- Rhode Island ( Mancini Beverage Rhode Island Distributing)
- South Carolina (Republic National Distributing)
- South Dakota (Republic National Distributing)
- Tennessee ( Empire Distributors Of Tennessee, Inc.)
- Tennessee (Lipman Brothers, Inc.)
- Tennessee (Tennessee Crown Distribution Company)
- Tennessee (Southern Glazers )
- Texas (Republic National Distributing)
- Utah (Utah Department Of Alcohol)
- Vermont (Baker Distributing Corporation)
- Virginia (Blue Ridge Beverage)
- Virginia (Republic National Distributing)
- Virginia (Virginia Imports)
- Washington (Republic National Distributing)
- West Virginia (Mountain State Beverage)
- Wisconsin (General Beverage)
- Wyoming (Wyoming Liquor Commission)
International:
- Belgium (Poot Agenturen B.V.)
- Canada - Alberta (Black Stallion Spirits Inc.)
- Canada - British Columbia (Vintage Corks Ltd.)
- Canada - Ontario (Von Terra Enterprises Ltd)
- Canada - Quebec (Mosaiq Vins et Spiritueux Inc)
- China (East Meets West Fine Wines)
- Czech Republic (Californian Wines)
- France (Ulysse Cazabonne)
- Germany (Ulysse Cazabonne)
- Hong Kong (East Meets West Fine Wines)
- Mexico (Great Fine Wines)
- Netherlands (Poot Agenturen B.V.)
- Philippines (PYC Foods Corporation)
- Puerto Rico (Labraterra, Inc. and Intrade Logistics, Corp.)
- Singapore (Enoteca Co., Ltd Singapore)
- South Korea (Enoteca Korea Co., Ltd)
- Sweden (Arvid Nordquist HAB)
- Taiwan (Enoteca Taiwan Co., Ltd.)
- United Kingdom (Jeroboams Group incorporating Laytons)