Two Wolves Cabernet Sauvignon 2019

95% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Petit Verdot, 2% Merlot.

The Cabernet was all picked in October after a long and late season. The vines loved the winter rains which showed in their healthy canopies well into October. They finally shut down in late October after nighttime temperatures dropped into the 30s. It was a seemingly perfect vintage.

The Cabernet Sauvignon is a blend of three different clones from different parts of the vineyard. The fruit harvested in the early morning then was 100% destemmed and hand-sorted. Clone 337 was fermented in oak rotary fermenters, clone 191 was in open-top oak barrels, and the See clone was fermented in an open top stainless steel tank.  The wine spent an average of 30 days on skins before being gently pressed into 50% new French oak barrels for maturation.

This wine belongs next to a dirty martini in a lounge with trouble on the mind. Or just drink by your fireplace and make good decisions. Up to you. Dusty leather, camphor, cinnamon, blackberries, green spice, and the sweet scent of a cigar box. So much fruit in the mouth, balanced with juicy acid and tannins that grip and then ease. Alecia Moore (Pink), Winery.