Cabernet Franc - Color: Deep, dark slate with candy red and garnet on the rim. - Nose: A voluptuous nose of cinnamon and chili flakes, which evolves into roasted strawberries and basil. - Palate: A rich and silky entry with a structured and savory mid-palate. Flavors ever evolving from caramelized strawberries and smoked blackberries to French thyme and sun-ripened tomato - 100% Barrel Fermented, 27 days on skins - Aging: 18 months, 100% French Oak, 80% New
Cabernet Franc - Color: Deep, dark cherry with touches of cherry and ruby on the rim - Nose: An explosion of spices, including nutmeg, licorice, chocolate and roasted espresso bean. A freshness of rosemary, muddled blueberries and violets. - Palate: A fresh and bright entrance balanced by great mid-palate acidity. Boysenberry, mulberry and huckleberry with granular tannins and lingering freshness
- Color: Deep, dark charcoal with touches of ruby and boysenberry - Nose: Beautiful chocolate covered cherry with touches of geranium, graphite and pencil shavings with tobacco leaf and licorice - Palate: Round, dense entrance evolving on a thick and velvety mid-palate, deeply integrated tannins with ripe cassis and blueberry - 100% Barrel Fermented, 24 days on skins - 18 months, 100% French Oak, 80% New
Cabernet Sauvignon - Color: deep, dark, shiny oil with touches of scarlet and blush - Nose: Beautiful spices like oregano, thyme and black pepper with lavender and tomato stems. Evolving on to black currant reduction, paprika, clay and wild strawberries - Palate: Fresh entrance evolving on a dense mid-palate, lasting granular tannins and touches of chalky minerality with boysenberry and fresh elderberry - 100% Barrel Fermented, 24 days on skins - 18 months, 100% French Oak, 80% New
Cabernet Sauvignon - Color: Deep, dark, shiny eggplant with touches of magenta and iris on the rim - Nose: Explosion of dark cocoa powder, cedar and dry cranberry with dark cherry, vanilla and rose petals - Palate: Soft entrance evolving on a fresh mid-palate with touches of red cherry and plum. granular tannins and an iron-rich and volcanic minerality with lingering touches of violet and blackberry - 100% Barrel Fermented, 24 days on skins - 18 months, 100% French Oak, 80% New
Cabernet Sauvignon - Nose: An elegant and silky nose of paprika, roasted red pepper, candied raspberry and toffee - Palate: : A round, but fresh entry with a mineral driven mid-palate, evolving into a long finish of elderberry, black currant, and cedar - Appearance: Beautiful, shiny dark cherry and with touches of scarlet on the rim
Vineyard Breakdown: 16% Sleeping Lady Vineyard Cabernet Franc 16% Beckstoffer To Kalon Cabernet Franc 30% Stagecoach Vineyard Cabernet Franc 18% Artalde Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 8% Sacrashe Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 12% Denali Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
Fermentation: 100% Barrel Fermented 27 days on skins
Aging: 23 months, 100% French Oak, 70% New
Winery
The Debate
Wine Region
United States / California / Napa Valley
Variety
38% / 62%
Vintage
2018
Attributes
+ 5
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