Gemstone Vineyard Heritage Selection Cabernet Sauvignon 2015

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Vintage
2015

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750ML

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Winemaker Notes

Our Heritage Cabernet Sauvignon celebrates the diversity of our vineyard. Each of our 20 micro-blocks is carefully matched to more than 16 different clones, including 10 Cabernet Sauvignon clones, and all blocks are vinified individually from harvest to barrel. This gives our winemaker a unique palette from which to blend a complex expression of its full character. Expressive and full-bodied, with deep blue and black fruit aromas, notes of cinnamon, cedar, tobacco, and anise all balance the complex fruit expression. Although this wine is fruit forward and approachable young, its bold tannins will support aging during the next 20 years.

Professional Ratings

  • 94
    Seductive, from the rich core of dense dark berry, mocha, licorice and cedar flavors to the supple, fleshy texture, firming on the finish. Drink now through 2032. 750 cases made.
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    COMMENTARY: The 2015 Gemstone Heritage Cabernet Sauvignon exemplifies a beautiful example of the Yountville AVA. TASTING NOTES: This wine is bright and elegant. Its aromas and flavors of pert red fruit are delicious and long on the palate. Pair its stylish notes with a lightly-seasoned leg of lamb. (Tasted: September 17, 2018, San Francisco, CA)
  • 93
    Deep purple-black in color, the 2015 Estate 'Heritage Selection' Cabernet Sauvignon has an enticing nose of chocolate box, blackberry pie and preserved plums with touches of aniseed, unsmoked cigars and chargrill plus a waft of Chinese five spice. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is finely crafted with elegantly played black fruit preserves and exotic spice layers, structured with very finely grained tannins and a lively backbone, finishing on a fruitcake note. 750 cases were made.
    Rating: 93+

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Gemstone Vineyard, California
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Gemstone Vineyard is a jewel-like slope nestled between rolling knolls on the eastern edge of Napa Valley. Incorporating a diverse grid of rare heritage clones of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Petit Verdot, Gemstone consistently produces a critically acclaimed estate blend that exhibits power and elegance. Gemstone Vineyard's intensely-flavored tiny berries produce wines described as having "heroic depth and opulent richness."
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A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe, its best examples showing potential to age beautifully for decades. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in Bordeaux's Medoc where it is often blended with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbecand Petit Verdot. In the Napa Valley, ‘Cab’ is responsible for some of the world’s most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after “cult” wines. Somm Secret—DNA profiling in 1997 revealed that Cabernet Sauvignon was born from a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc in 17th century southwest France.

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One of Napa Valley's most historic sub-appellations, Yountville spreads through some of the valley's ideal cooler sites and enjoys success with a handful of different and significant grape varieties.

Syrah competes strongly with Cabernet Sauvignon here for optimal vineyard real estate followed by Pinot noir, Pinot blanc and Sauvignon blanc.

This sub-AVA of Napa Valley is rich in the history that makes Napa Valley what it is today, and not just for red wines. Moët & Chandon entered the California winemaking business via Yountville in 1973 with the establishment Domaine Chandon. Their goal has always been to produce top quality méthode champenoise sparkling wines.

Christian Moueix, originally responsible for managing Chateau Petrus and La Fleur-Petrus in Pomerol, arrived in Yountville in the early 1980s. He formed a partnership with Rohin Lail and Marcia Smith, inheritors of Napanook vineyard from their father John Daniel of Inglenook in Rutherford. In 1995 Moueix became sole owner of Napanook and chose the name Dominus, which today produces some of Napa’s highest scoring, age-worthy Bordeaux Blends.

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