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Tom Eddy Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet is our specialty and we make approximately 1500 cases (3000 six packs) annually. Our Cabernet grapes come from classic hillside vineyards in Atlas Peak, Pritchard Hill, Diamond Mountain, and the Oakville Bench---areas that produce some of the most extraordinary mountain fruit of the Napa Valley. All our grapes are lovingly hand sorted (twice). Each vineyard is fermented and barreled separately, then carefully blended right before bottling to maximize complexity and balance. Our wines receive a minimum of 28 months of French Oak barrel age and then they spend anywhere from one or two years gently maturing in the bottle before being released. Our goal is to create elegant, balanced wines of the highest quality, ready to drink now while maximizing their aging potential. Holding wine in our cellars is more costly, but ‘No Wine Before It’s Time’ is more than a ditty at Tom Eddy Winery. You have our promise: when you buy an Eddy, it’s ready.
As some of you know, Tom Eddy wines are built for elegance and longevity. Some say we're 'Old World'. If that means we make balanced, well-made wine, well, ok. That's us! At least, that's what we've strived for these last thirty odd years. And here's something we've learned along the way: you can have killer creds and classy wines but it's not always what you know but who you know. We hope more people will get to know us, and visa versa.
The Eddy Family wines tend to be younger and less needy: the whites are crisp, ready to drink and the reds are approachable earlier and require less cellaring and bottle age, perfect for everyday consumption.Cabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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