Palate
One of the common traits of this wine is the fruit forward, inky dark color and an aromatic nose. The wine is bold but elegant and well balanced.
Growing Conditions
We source our Cabernet Sauvignon from multiple vineyards and sub-applications as the base wine; we blend Merlot and Malbec to refine the wine. We only use 100% new French oak barrels.
Our goal at PATEL is and always will be, to produce beautiful wines of outstanding quality, with distinction and elegance. Our Cabernet Sauvignon has the style and quality that are with par wines from the great ‘Left Bank’ region of Bordeaux, France.
Bottling
The wine was bottled, unfine and unfiltered June 2009.
Winemaking
We adhere to strictest quality standards. From the vineyard, the clusters are all hand-sorted, 100% de-stemming, the berries are again hand sorted, berry by berry. After three to five days of cold pre-fermentation in small open-top fermenters, we start fermentation by adding yeast. Four to five weeks later; the fruit is gently pressed and moved to barrel where it finishes the remaining secondary fermentations.
Aging
The wine continues to the carefully age in new French oak barrels from artesian French Coopers. To assure proper aging we age our wines for about eighteen to twenty months in a combination of rare barrels from Ana Selection and Darnajou.
