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  • Country ranking ?

    409
  • Producer ranking ?

    27
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2018-2025
  • Food Pairing

    Grilled beef skewers

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The Story

Single vineyard wine,  Money Road Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon, typifies the classic wine profile that put Oakville on the map as Napa Valley's most sought after Cabernet Sauvignon destination. Wine is aged 20 months in medium plus French barriques, 78% new. Aromas of dark berries, black cherry, slate, mocha and even tobacco lend to its classic character. The palate is rich and complex with seamlessly integrated layers of brooding dark fruit and refined tannins. The finish is lengthy and the aging potential is 20 plus years.

Production: approx. 900 cases annually 

 

 

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2008 Napa vintage comments from the wine producers

Kristof Anderson, winemaker at Gargiulo Vineyards:
“The late winter and spring of 2008 was abnormally dry and cold. I was up very early in the morning helping with frost protection and sitting in my truck looking at the thermometer for around six weeks straight. The drought conditions and inclement weather, both then and during the bloom, caused lower than normal yields. The summer was cooler than most years, yet a nice warm autumn allowed for very even ripening. We did a fair amount of canopy management of the leaves and fruit clusters in the vineyards to help maximise the amount of sunlight that reached them, yet we managed to avoid sunburnt fruit. We picked each vine several different times over the course of 2–3 weeks as the cool spring caused an uneven set throughout the vineyard. The quality of the crop was very good. The small berries in small clusters were intense in colour and showed a good amount of phenolics without being over-extracted. The mild weather and low yields made this vintage very unique, although there were some elements that were reminiscent of 2006. However, we did not experience the short heat spike that accompanied that summer. It also shared some similarities with 2002 but that vintage was warmer during the harvest, so some producers had some pretty ripe offerings that year. The ripeness of the fruit reminded me of 1992, which was my first vintage in Napa, but we were making wine very differently in the valley back then, so the resulting wines are rather different. The balance of these wines makes them rather approachable at a young age, yet they possess plenty of structure and acidity, which should allow them to age well over a decade and even into the 2020s for the well disciplined collector out there.”

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Origin

Oakville, Napa Valley

Grapes

100% Cabernet Sauvignon

Ageing

  • in oak 100% for 20 months

Glass time

1.5h

Drinking temperature

18C
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