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Wine Description
The Story
Harlan Estate For nearly three decades, Harlan Estate has been committed to creating California "First Growth" wine estate.
Set on the western hills of Oakville, rising above the fabled Napa Valley bench lands, the estate is over 97 hectares of natural splendor; oak-studded knolls and valleys, roughly fifteen percent of which are under vine, planted with the classic varietals: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. But...
Wine Information
A superb growing season. Lower-than-normal rainfall (21 inches), mostly late in the winter. spring was dry. Budbreak occurred april 17. a cool summer (only two days over 100° degrees and just twenty-six days over 90°) followed by an even cooler september, which allowed for a slow and deliberate ripening and a very reasonable harvest pace (september 4 through October 11). We managed optimal maturity in most all of the lots, yielding 2.2 tons pe...
