Chappellet Signature Cabernet Sauvignon

The wine the signature cabernet sauvignon has been our flagship wine for more than three decades. It is a benchmark for the long-lived hillside wines of the napa valley; full of structure and aging potential yet seductively forward in its varietal character. The dry rocky soils of pritchard hill produce small intensely flavorful grapes. Crop thinning allows for full even ripening and further elevates flavor complexity. Growing season and harvest for the third year in a row mother nature provided exceptional growing conditions. In fact our vineyard manager dave pirio believes that 2012 2013 and 2014 may be the finest run of growing seasons he has seen in his more than 30 years of farming pritchard hill. While 2014 offered lovely temperate mid-season weather that was ideal for our early ripening varieties it also brought ample warmth in september and october ensuring perfect ripeness in our late-ripening grapes. With no threat of rain or significant heat events