Palate
This wine displays beautifully sweet cranberry, boysenberry, and mulberry fruits as well as notes of forest floor and flowers. Dense ruby/purple, it cuts a medium to full-bodied impression across the palate. Pure and nicely touched by oak, with a terrific finish, this is top-flight Cabernet Franc to drink over the next 12-15+ years.
Growing Conditions
Only grapes grown in our wide-spaced planted, low-yielding 33 acre vineyard on the estate are used to make O’Brien Estate wines. The grapes are hand-harvested, crushed and fermented in small batches in the winery adjacent to the vineyard and our home, then aged exclusively in French oak barrels (33% new for Chardonnay, 75% new for red wines, 100% new for Reserve reds). We take a minimalist approach to winemaking to allow the flavors created in the vineyard to be expressed in the wine as a unique signature of our unique terroir.
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