Estate Grown
2018 Cabernet Sauvignon
St. Helena
SODHANI Vineyards is a family-owned, 6.5-acre hillside vineyard in the golden west side of St. Helena with sweeping views of the Vaca Mountains across the valley, making limited production Cabernet Sauvignon wines crafted by one of the world’s top winemakers, Thomas Rivers Brown. Planted in 2000 in the rarest of volcanic Aiken stony clay loam soil, the vines are in full maturity, producing luscious concentrated fruit. Due to the steep slope the vineyard is entirely hand-farmed and meticulously hand-harvested before dawn. Thomas has passionately created our unique Premiere Napa Valley wine from Clone 7 and used whole-berry fermentation, unfiltered and unfined. The wine is aged in Taransaud medium toasted 100 percent new French oak barrels for 20 months and Thomas then selects the best barrel from block of Clone 7 to create this phenomenal Cabernet. Thomas’s goal with this wine is to create the ultimate expression from our hillside terroir focusing on maximum power, complexity and depth of flavor certain to coat the entire palate. This wine immediately draws you in with its completely opaque, deep purple hue and has a very sleek, viscous mouthfeel.
Winemaker, SODHANI Vineyards
Thomas Rivers Brown, one of the world's top winemakers, is best known for his Cabernet Sauvignon wines and has received more 100 point scores from Wine Advocate and Wine Spectator than any other winemaker in the world. Thomas' passion for handcrafting our wines begins with orchestrating the progress of our grapes in the vineyard, deciding the perfect time to pick our blocks based on ripeness, selecting and matching the right new French oak barrels to the blocks and clones, and blending to perfection in the bottle for our Reserves and Estates. Thomas endeavors to produce SODHANI wines that are the true expression of our unique terroir and rare micro-climate.
Country born: USA
Years in the wine industry: 10-15 years
6484 Washington Street
Suite C
Yountville CA 94599
707-320-3495
Premiere Napa Valley Wine Collection
Winery | Vintage | Variety | Appellation | Fanciful | Auction |
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Switchback Ridge | 2021 | Cabernet Sauvignon | Calistoga | Tabula Rasa | 27 |
Kerr Cellars | 2018 | Cabernet Sauvignon | Napa Valley | Double Eagle | 24 |
SODHANI Vineyards | 2018 | Cabernet Sauvignon | St. Helena | Estate Grown | 24 |
CAMi Vineyards | 2016 | Merlot | Calistoga | THS | 22 |
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