2017 Hayfork Cabernet Sauvignon
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$33
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BOLD. LIVELY. WELL-ROUNDED.
WINE OVERVIEW
6th generation Napa farmer Haley Wight proves that good quality wine starts in the farm with this refined Cab.
TASTING NOTES
Bold and lively, this vintage possesses a brightness of fruit like no other. With notes of apricot stone, plum preserves, and roasted cacao, together with round tannins and the pleasing spice indicative of the Lewelling Ranch, this wine is lovely now and will evolve gracefully with cellaring.
EAT WITH
Pairs well with hard aged cheeses, spicy lamb stew or a blue cheese burger.
TECH INFO
Harvested from Lewelling Ranch, an alluvial fan at the base of St. Helena’s western foothills, that produces lush, fruit forward wines. The soil is bale, gravelly loam. Aged in 70% new French oak and bottled in May 2021.
Where: St. Helena, Napa Valley
Grape: 97% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Petit Verdot
Elevation: 250 feet
Alcohol: 15.5%
More about Hayfork
Napa winemaker Haley Wight is the 6th generation of her family to farm the Lewelling Ranch which sits at the base ofthe St. Helena foothills in the Napa Valley. She believes the farmer in the field lays the foundation to produce amazing wine. Her Cabernet comes from the same block of the same vineyard every year, which is one of the oldest continuously owned and family-farmed pieces of land in the valley.
The name has several personal meanings: a nickname Haley had as a child (the first part of her name and her lean physique) and a reference to the tiny town of Hayfork in the Trinity Mountains of Northern CA where the family spent time fishing. It is also a tribute to her farming background.