Description
http://www.varozzavineyards.com
Estate grown, St. Helena, Napa Valley ? 100th Harvest. Only 350 cases produced.
The Varozzas have farmed their vineyards for over 100 years. The non-internventionalist practices Jack Varozza employs in the vineyard are carried over to the winery where celebrated winemaker, Kristy Melton, begins to work her magic. Kristy chooses the best blocks of their old vine Cabernet Sauvignon to make Varozza?s highly-limited estate wines. Leveraging minimal yet highly modern fermentation and aging techniques, Kristy strives to achieve exceptional balance in the wines with a level of sophistication and concentration truly unique to Varozza Vineyards.
Varozza?s Cabernet Sauvignon blocks are composed of the oldest vines of this particular variety on the property ? and many believe in Napa Valley - and represent St. Helena Cabernet Sauvignon in its purest form.
Like many older Cabernet Sauvignon vineyards in Napa valley, the vines faced the bulldozer a few years back due to the decline in the amount of fruit they produced. However, regardless of the limited yield, these vines were by far the most concentrated and balanced of their peers. They were saved and now provide the foundation for Varozza Vineyards stunning Cabernet.
The berries are the size of a blueberry, at best. The skins are thick and tough, and loaded with color and tannin. The flavor they produce lends toward a rustic, earth driven wine with undercurrents of very black fruit. The tannins are incredibly well structured, but integrate into the wine with such finesse you would think it was made of silk.