This wine is very light and so pretty. If dusty rose had a flavor, this would be it. Rose petal, plum, and that moment when you pick a blackberry and then wish you had given it just one more day. The palate has strawberry, stone fruit and fresh herbs. Such a lovely Chinon style Cab Franc- food friendly and refreshing.
These grapes were hand-harvested on October 4, 2018, de-stemmed and fermented on the skins for 20 days with native yeast. The wine was then gently pressed and racked into neutral oak barrels to age for nearly two years.
132 cases produced.
2018 Extea Moon Mountain Cabernet Franc
$32.00
The Pickberry Vineyard is farmed by the Strotz family and has been selling award winning Zinfandels to Ravenswood since 1986. In 2012 they started selling fruit to a handful of other lucky winemakers, and Etxea is lucky to be in with them! This rolling hillside vineyard outside of Glen Ellen is overall cool, so the fruit is often late ripening, allowing for complexity and depth in flavors.
Cabernet Franc at this site seems to want to be made in a Loire style, but without any presence of pyrazines – the compound that expresses as green pepper in most Bordeaux varieties, but especially in Cabernet Franc. So a lighter wine, treated like Pinot Noir- gently and quietly.