Resulting from a truly remarkable vintage, the La Jota Cabernet Sauvignon is a masterful expression of fruit concentration and mountain driven texture and minerality. Lauded by the critics, this site-driven Cabernet Sauvignon is an instant classic. On the palate, this rich red wine exhibits dark fruit, espresso, toast, and a hint of herbaceousness, finishing with great mid palate weight, earthiness and firm tannins. This Red Wine has a Cork closure. Alcohol Content: 14.5% Pairs with New York strip steak, lamb stew and osso bucco. The La Jota Vineyard lies high upon a volcanic plateau, looking east over Napa Valley. Surrounded by pine, fir, oak and madrone trees, the estate stands out because of its cool, windswept climate. Here we look to vineyard blocks that produce soft-textured Cabernet Sauvignon for wines of earlier approachability, and where the decomposed granite soils of our W.S. Keyes Vineyard impart a pop of bright fruit character and broader tannins. We hand-harvested grapes into small, 30-pound boxes to prevent crushing, and then we brought them to the winery for hand-sorting. After destemming and light crushing, the must was cold-soaked for gentle color, flavor and tannin extraction. Winemaker Chris Carpenter fermented the juice with native yeast in a combination of open and closed-top stainless steel tanks. Following gentle basket press, the wine underwent in-barrel malolactic fermentation, rounding the acidity and integrating the vanilla character of French oak. The wine was barrel-aged for 20 months and bottled unfined and unfiltered.
TYPE
Red
VINTAGE
2018
REGION
Howell Mountain, Napa Valley, North Coast, California
COUNTRY
United States
ALCOHOL
14.9%
TASTING
On the palate, this rich red wine exhibits dark fruit, espresso, toast, and a hint of herbaceousness, finishing with great mid palate weight, earthiness and firm tannins.
AROMA
Dark Fruit
TYPE
Red
VINTAGE
2018
REGION
Howell Mountain, Napa Valley, North Coast, California
COUNTRY
United States
ALCOHOL
14.9%
TASTING
On the palate, this rich red wine exhibits dark fruit, espresso, toast, and a hint of herbaceousness, finishing with great mid palate weight, earthiness and firm tannins.
AROMA
Dark Fruit
