This wine is a barrel selection of the most concentrated lots to create a powerful wine. The wine is made from the blend of 3 blocks: 15% North Face, 55% Bay View and 30% Finger.

Kitoko Vineyard, named for the Congolese Lingala word for “beautiful,” is a 14.2-acre vineyard high on Atlas Peak, planted to Cabernet Sauvignon in 2000 and 2003. The soils here are incredibly rocky, dry, and poor, quite like Pritchard Hill to the north, studded with fractured andesite rock and boulders. The proximity to the San Pablo Bay brings persistent winds, which along with the heat and arid soil, cause the set of very small berries and loose bunches, and consistently delay ripening each year.

Bud break mid April followed by a warm early season. Late rains in May recharged the soils in water. October was extremely dry and windy. The lowest Accumulated Growing Days of all Napa nested appellations but higher than 2018. Harvest started October 18 and ended November 4.