Mettler Cabernet Sauvignon

The Mettler family heritage honors 100 years and five generations of farming in Lodi with the release of this exceptional Cabernet Sauvignon. The size of the crop the time spent on the vine and the many months aged in French oak barrels all reflect the care our family took to fully express the potential of these very small and unique portions of ourvineyards. The grapes chosen for this wine came from four of our outstanding blocks of Cabernet-all of which are sustainably farmed and planted from unique French clones. For each vineyard the planting and trellis system were customized for the vineyard site. The vines on one of the vineyards situated on a hillside are contoured to follow the natural curvature of a bordering creek. Another vineyard has a unique trellis system to help the grapes ripen more evenly. A custom-designed modification to the VSP (vertical shoot positioning) trellis system allows the fruit in this vineyard to bask in the morning sunlight but then shelters it