2016 Stormy Weather Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

WA96 Produced from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon (clones 7 and 337), coming from Calistoga, the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Stormy Weather spent 30 months in 100% new French oak barrels. It reveals a deep garnet-purple color and notes of baked berries, plum preserves, spice cake, blackcurrant pastilles and chocolate box with wafts of menthol and incense. Full-bodied and seductively textured with beautifully soft tannins, it has bags of earth-laced black fruit preserves and a long, spicy finish. 404 cases were made.
Estate Notes: Deep garnet in color with aromas of cherries and blackberry with a waft of summer sweet pea blossoms. Flavors of bing cherry and blackberry jam with big, soft opulent tannins that carry through the mid-pallet into a long fruit bomb finish. Drinking beautifully now but will easily age 10-20 years. Fermented in small format stainless steel tanks. Cold soaked 5 days prior to fermentation. Temperature maintained below 80 degrees with a post ferment extended maceration of an additional 5 days. Malolactic fermentation occurred in barrel with aging on lees for at least 1 year. Aged 30 months 100% New French Oak,bottle Aged 4 months prior to release in 2019. Production: 404 cases. 100% Cabernet Sauvignon 29 cases (1500ml)