Our Estate wines are made from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from one single vineyard in the high-altitude hills of Saint Helena. Consistent elegance and charm. The Three Clones bottling offering captures the unique essence of three distinctive Cabernet Sauvignon clones; 4, 7, and 337 from unique terroirs and micro-climates. When it is all said and done the partners get their choice of the best blocks and best-finished wines of the vintage. Our winemaker creates the top cuvée from it and calls it the Partners Reserve.
Fairly warmer summer days mid-90+°F but due to higher elevation and summer fog at night, quite chilly at night (below 50°F/10°C). With colder winters and spring, as well as strong winds, harvest comes later than on the valley floor at Oakville. On the valley floor, primarily alluvial soils with silty-clay composition of marine origin, with good fertility. Hillsides show more clay-loam and stony-clay composition, mostly marine in origin, with some volcanic outcropping, and less fertility.
Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve floats effortlessly out of the glass with beautiful scents of violets, lavender, kirsch, and cedar chest over a core of ripe, wild blueberries and mulberries. The full-bodied palate offers fantastic tension, delivering mouth-coating black fruit and a texture of exquisitely ripe, grainy tannins, finishing long and perfumed.