750 ml

"Flavors of blue fruits and mocha abound with rounding texture lift this wine on your palate. The long, steady finish exhibits why mountain Merlot stands alone."

Winemaker Chris Carpenter

100% Merlot

"This Cabernet Sauvignon has great spice, minerality, notes of blue fuits, toast, and dark cherry that combine with bright florals notes, weights and wonderful finished."

Winemaker Chris Carpenter

87.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot, 3% Malbec, 3% Cabernet Franc, 1.5% Petit Verdot

Our 2012 Mt. Brave Merlot has ripe boysenberry aromas and flavors layered with notes of Asian spice. This wine is rich in fruit and balanced by structure, minerality and acidity for a mouthwatering finish.

An exquisite collision of fresh blueberry and rose petal deepens with Asian spice and vanilla tones. Thrilling energy sets this vineyard block apart. Extroverted structure and inky richness are marks of the fabulous 2019 growing season.

"Big but balanced, bursting with black fruit and savory notes on a firm structure of fine-grained tannins. It starts with floral and black cherry aromas, then blackberry, graphite, tobacco leaf and mocha flavors that expand on the palate and linger in the finish. Drinkable now, but best from 2030."
Jim Gordon,JamesSuckling.com, December 2024

Good winter rains at the end of 2021 and beginning of 2022 broke a three-year drought. A moderate spring followed. Summer weather was stable up until a very intense Labor Day heatwave—which was somewhat mitigated by mountain air in our estate vineyards. Light rains arrived mid-September. We harvested the Cabernet Franc on September 13 and the Zinfandel on September 21.

Grown on the slopes of Mount Veeder, this is Malbec operating at a high level. Minerality intelligently accents the mouth-filling juiciness of ripe blueberry and spiced rhubarb-cherry pie, while soft tannins create an elegant, generous frame.

Grown in a vineyard block surrounded by dense forest, this Merlot uniquely reflects the terroir of Mt. Veeder. Both sumptuous and delicately earthy, the wine offers up aromatics of dark cherry, blueberry, rose petal, and forest floor. Silky tannins carry each sip into incredible length.