2021 Neal Family "Rutherford Dust Vineyard" Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, California, USAABOUT THIS WINE The "Rutherford Dust Vineyard" Cabernet Sauvignon is sourced from Neal Family's estate in the heart of Napa Valleys Rutherford region, renowned for its gravelly loam soils that impart the signature "Rutherford Dust" minerality to the wine. The 2021 vintage was hand harvested at optimal ripeness and fermented with native yeasts. The wine was aged for 22 months in a mix of French oak barrels, with 60% new oak, to enhance complexity and

progressive cold maceration precedes fermentation

The 2017 Pinot Noir from Salem Wine Company is produced from sustainable grapes biodynamically farmed in the volcanic soil of the Eola-Amity Hills

The tannins are soft

and a selection of indigenous varieties and wine styles from the Valais

Average age of vines is 50 years and are harvested by hand

and 225L French oak barrels (Syrah & Mourvèdre

These wines seem to provide proof that there is more to "terroir" than just the right vines on great soil in the right climate and it's all about the unique personality of the winemaker

After a a few years they purchased 50 acres in Red Mountain in the Yakima Valley and planted the Bordeaux varieties on most of the land

with an average vine age of 50 years old

she has launched her own line of wines from vineyards in Geneva

Aged in used French oak and sees 56 months on lees

Kimmeridgian Soil