Black Cherry, Blood Orange, Pomegranate, Citrus Peel
THE STORY: This vintage of The Perfect Red is very special as it's the first to use estate fruit from Fox Hill Vineyard to blend with Wirth Vineyard’s Cabernet Sauvignon coming from Solano County’s Green Valley in Northern California. This wine, like previous vintages, is a fresher style than other California Cab representations. We harvest the grapes at lower brix compared to neighboring Napa Valley to help highlight the style we prefer and keep it fairly simple in the cellar. For this vintage we wanted to add more fruit and depth to the wine with the addition of Fox Hill fruit. 2024 was one of the best vintages on record for our vineyard and with the Cabernet coming in a little bit more on the vegetal side than expected, we wanted to boost some of the fruit which we knew would ultimately make for a better wine. We think this may be the best vintage of Perfect Red that we've made so far. The wine saw a combination of mostly destemmed fruit with the remaining grapes left whole cluster. We fermented with native yeast and pressed early and very gently to lessen the amount of tannins in the wine. Aged in a combination of concrete and neutral oak barrique for 9 months.
FUN FACT: The Perfect Red is “something that’s easy to drink but has enough complexity to elevate the wine…is affordable and ‘perfect’ for what it is and how it’s priced.’ – Chris Brockway
VARIETIES: 75% Cabernet Sauvignon | 25% Fox Hill Blend - Montepulciano, Sangiovese + Primitivo
LOCATION: California
FARMING PRACTICES: Organically grown grapes
ALCOHOL: 13%
