Xtant Napa Red 2014

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Product Details


Varietal

Region

Producer

Vintage
2014

Size
750ML

ABV
14.9%

Features
Boutique

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Winemaker Notes

Xtant exhibits a beautiful dark brick color. On the nose, it unfolds aromas of black cherry, cassis, and blackcurrant. Dark fruit and blossoms. Dark chocolate and mocha dust. Sweet pipe tobacco, cedar with slight leather and complex vanilla oak. Beautiful palate entry, with a slight, lifted cranberry note. Very long and seductive with the most elegant tannin structure. Still very tight - even better after opened for a few hours.

Professional Ratings

  • 91

    Jeff Gaffner blends this wine from three vineyards—Lewelling, Kletter and Oakville Station—the wine focused on cabernet sauvignon (65 percent) enriched with merlot and malbec. It’s warm, spicy, heady and full of fruit. Associate editor Sydney Love described it as “a wine for Southern food, like ribs and baked beans.”

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Xtant Wines, California
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Xtant is a singularly expressive opus; rooted in generations of winegrowing and one of Napa Valley’s most storied vineyards. Third generation vintner Jeff O’Neill pays tribute to Napa Valley in a wine that reflects its rich history, world class terroir and constant innovation. Winemaker Jeff Gaffner – also a third generation winegrower - has used exclusive access to some of Napa’s best vineyards and “no-holds-barred” winemaking to achieve the ultimate expression of vineyard and varietal.

From the beginning, the foundation for Xtant has been Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot from the legendary Lewelling Vineyards; one of Napa Valley’s most historic and revered vineyard sites, operated today by fourth generation Lewellings, Alan, Doug and Dave Wight. Cabernet Sauvignon from the Kletter Vineyard and Malbec from Oakville Station round out the blend. Xtant unparalleled blend of vineyards and winemaking have resulted in a seductively rich and full bodied wine with a concentrated core of dark fruit, gracefully balanced by fine-grained, chalky tannins that give it the structure for years of cellaring potential.

Xtant’s has garnered significant critical acclaim since its inaugural 2001 release, which received 92 points and was heralded as “outstanding” by the Wine Spectator, who named Xtant to their list of “Napa’s Impressive Newcomers”.

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Undoubtedly proving its merit over and over, Napa Valley is a now a leading force in the world of prestigious red wine regions. Though Cabernet Sauvignon dominates Napa Valley, other red varieties certainly thrive here. Important but often overlooked include Merlot and other Bordeaux varieties well-regarded on their own as well as for their blending capacities. Very old vine Zinfandel represents an important historical stronghold for the region and Pinot noir is produced in the cooler southern parts, close to the San Pablo Bay.

Perfectly situated running north to south, the valley acts as a corridor, pulling cool, moist air up from the San Pablo Bay in the evenings during the hot days of the growing season, which leads to even and slow grape ripening. Furthermore the valley claims over 100 soil variations including layers of volcanic, gravel, sand and silt—a combination excellent for world-class red wine production.

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