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Wine Description
The Story
In the late 60s, Joseph Phelps was running one of the largest construction companies in the U.S. when he won the bid to build Souverain Winery (now Rutherford Hill) located a few miles outside of St. Helena. Enamored with the beautiful Napa Valley and contemplating a career change, in 1973 he bought the 600-acre Connolly cattle ranch in Spring Valley, and began planting vineyards. The winery was completed in 1974 and that same year the first S...
Wine Information
93% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Petit Verdot and 3% Malbec from the estate-owned Backus Vineyard in Oakville.
Grapes were harvested at an average 25.0° Brix, fermented in stainless steel tanks, then aged 24 months in new French oak barrels manufactured by Taransaud, Dargaud, Jaegle and Darnajou. The wine was subsequently bottled without filtration in January, 2008.
Winemaker Notes
The 2005 Backus Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon yielded a class...
