2019 Spring Mountain Vineyard Cabernet
Tasting Notes
The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon displays all the hallmarks of a great wine sourced from our estate on Spring Mountain. Upon first pour, the wine shows dusty notes of sage, white pepper, and rosemary. As the wine continues to open, aromas of sweet brambly fruit, floral hibiscus and fresh plum fill the glass. On the palate, the wine exhibits sweet red fruits mingling with blackberry and currants. Secondary notes of licorice, cedar, and tobacco continue to evolve in the glass over time. The structure shows weight and precision while balancing tannin and acidity over a lengthy finish. This wine is showing well now but will age gracefully over the next decade.
Additional Notes
About Spring Mountain Vineyard
A tapestry of time and place, Spring Mountain Vineyard weaves together three distinct chapters of history. Individual yet intertwined, each is a story of courage and discovery that ultimately created the foundation of our estate and shaped the heritage of this renowned appellation.
As the Napa Valley wine industry awakened at the turn of the 20th century, the mystique and unparalleled beauty of Spring Mountain beckoned to the dreamers and visionaries. Over a span of just a few years, from 1872 to 1884, three impressive estates were founded on its slopes – La Perla, Chevalier, and Miravalle. The passionate pioneers of these properties literally pushed boundaries as they planted vines and erected stately wine cellars amongst the undulating terrain and dense forest land of this bucolic mountain. La Perla became home to the first Cabernet Sauvignon vines on Spring Mountain. Chevalier built a revolutionary gravity-flow winery. It was a period of innovation and optimism – a belief that this mountain could produce some of the best wine in the world.
As a group of entrepreneurs, their enterprising pursuits were joined by an appetite for opulence. Each estate had a measure of grandeur, including ornate mansions, terraced gardens, expansive orchards, pools, and even a few stone stairways that lead to nowhere.
Quietly, over the next century, these estates evolved – in size, ownership, and production – yet the devoted stewardship to place and the dedication to fine wine never wavered. In 1976, Spring Mountain Chardonnay placed fourth in the Judgement of Paris, finishing above famous French houses and putting the region on the map. By the 1990s, the neighboring estates were joined together to form Spring Mountain Vineyards. Together, the property now stretched 845 acres from the town of St. Helena up to La Perla’s ridgetops at 1700 feet – a landscape so vast and with so much diversity that every year carried potential for greatness.
In addition, the estate now encompassed two mansions, expansive caves, historic ghost wineries, olive orchards, exotic gardens, and 19th century stables. Restoration to its former splendor began in earnest.
Tasting Notes
The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon displays all the hallmarks of a great wine sourced from our estate on Spring Mountain. Upon first pour, the wine shows dusty notes of sage, white pepper, and rosemary. As the wine continues to open, aromas of sweet brambly fruit, floral hibiscus and fresh plum fill the glass. On the palate, the wine exhibits sweet red fruits mingling with blackberry and currants. Secondary notes of licorice, cedar, and tobacco continue to evolve in the glass over time. The structure shows weight and precision while balancing tannin and acidity over a lengthy finish. This wine is showing well now but will age gracefully over the next decade.
Additional Notes
About Spring Mountain Vineyard
A tapestry of time and place, Spring Mountain Vineyard weaves together three distinct chapters of history. Individual yet intertwined, each is a story of courage and discovery that ultimately created the foundation of our estate and shaped the heritage of this renowned appellation.
As the Napa Valley wine industry awakened at the turn of the 20th century, the mystique and unparalleled beauty of Spring Mountain beckoned to the dreamers and visionaries. Over a span of just a few years, from 1872 to 1884, three impressive estates were founded on its slopes – La Perla, Chevalier, and Miravalle. The passionate pioneers of these properties literally pushed boundaries as they planted vines and erected stately wine cellars amongst the undulating terrain and dense forest land of this bucolic mountain. La Perla became home to the first Cabernet Sauvignon vines on Spring Mountain. Chevalier built a revolutionary gravity-flow winery. It was a period of innovation and optimism – a belief that this mountain could produce some of the best wine in the world.
As a group of entrepreneurs, their enterprising pursuits were joined by an appetite for opulence. Each estate had a measure of grandeur, including ornate mansions, terraced gardens, expansive orchards, pools, and even a few stone stairways that lead to nowhere.
Quietly, over the next century, these estates evolved – in size, ownership, and production – yet the devoted stewardship to place and the dedication to fine wine never wavered. In 1976, Spring Mountain Chardonnay placed fourth in the Judgement of Paris, finishing above famous French houses and putting the region on the map. By the 1990s, the neighboring estates were joined together to form Spring Mountain Vineyards. Together, the property now stretched 845 acres from the town of St. Helena up to La Perla’s ridgetops at 1700 feet – a landscape so vast and with so much diversity that every year carried potential for greatness.
In addition, the estate now encompassed two mansions, expansive caves, historic ghost wineries, olive orchards, exotic gardens, and 19th century stables. Restoration to its former splendor began in earnest.