Region: Uco Valley, Mendoza, Argentina
Varietal: 90% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Cabernet Franc
Tasting Notes: Cigar box, tobacco and dark truffles with lots of ripe dark olives. Piles of dusty tannins grow on the palate in a crescendo, with great focus and freshness. The layered, lengthy finish goes on and on.
THE LOVE STORY
Once upon a time, a bee (or two) went from the flowers of a Cabernet Franc vine to the flowers of a Sauvignon Blanc vine, and a seedling child began to ripen inside the mother grapes. Then came war, and the vineyard was abandoned. Years later, the vintner returned to his land, and found a new vine. He tasted the grapes and fell in love. It was Cabernet Sauvignon.
Our  allegory  of  the  vines  as  animals  gives  a  whimsical rendering  of  the  story.  The  fox  –Cabernet  Franc–  has attributes of Cardinal Richelieu, the first famous lover of the said grape. The siren –part woman, part bird– represents Sauvignon Blanc in all her savage glory. On the right, their child –Cabernet Sauvignon – is depicted as a world traveller, adventuring from the French Pyrenees to the Catena Zapata pyramid, at the foothills of the Andes, in Argentina.
Certified sustainable wine, made from organic grapes, bottled unfiltered & unfined.