Wine Portfolio

Highlights

• Small-lot, 100% estate grown Cabernet Sauvignon, beautifully structured, elegant and powerful
• This is a unique blend of Clones 7 and 191 created especially for Premiere Napa Valley
• Showing its youthful prime, this wine delivers a masculine texture with a lingering earthy pleasure
• Aromas of black cherry, cassis and plum combine with dark chocolate and classic Rutherford Dust

Description

Blend 198 is the intersection of two gravel streaks that run through Sullivan Vineyards on west Galleron Road. On the westerly gravel seam washed down off of Spring Mountain is the clone 7, planted by the family in 2000. Bright in flavor, dark cherries and dark berries, plush and concentrated finish. To the east is the clone 191 on a gravel riffle of smaller, finer cobble that was influenced by sedimentary forces long ago. Finer in tannin, more powerful in structure, the Clone 191 adds a layer of fine tobacco and bitter chocolate that, when co-fermented with the Clone 7, brings the two Cabernets together into a singular wine.

Wine Facts

• Single vineyard wine
• Wine was dry farmed
• Sustainably produced
• Wine is 100% estate grown and bottled