Product Details
2013 Cabernet Franc, Spring Mountain 750 ML
Vineyard Notes
2013 Keenan Cabernet Franc, Spring Mountain District
This wine was produced exclusively from grapes grown on the Keenan Estate located in Napa Valley’s Spring Mountain District. Our two blocks of Cabernet Franc were harvested on October 2nd and October 4th, 2013. The fruit was hand-picked then, after de-stemming, the must was inoculated with Montrachet yeast and fermented in stainless steel tanks. The wine aged in French and American oak barrels for twenty months.
“Freakishly good” is how we have come to describe this single vineyard Cabernet Franc from our highest elevation vineyard (approx. 2000') aptly named the "Upper Bowl". Cabernet Franc is simply not supposed to be this delicious. Enjoy now or decades from now.
Excerpt from Robert M. Parker, Jr. ,
The Wine Advocate
Issue # 222, December 2015
94 Points
“One of Napa Valley’s most successful Cabernet Francs, Keenan’s 2013 Cabernet Franc, is 100% estate Cabernet Franc from their holdings on Spring Mountain. Beautiful blueberry and raspberry fruit interwoven with spring flowers jumps from the glass of this wonderfully balanced and elegant, yet authoritative wine. It is rich, medium to full-bodied, but at the same time ethereal and finesse-oriented. This is a great example of Cabernet Franc at its best, intense, but elegant. This should last for at least another decade.”
Vineyard Designation
Spring Mountain
Wine Data
| Size | 750 ml |
|---|---|
| Vintage | 2013 |
| Alcohol | 14.4%% |
| pH | 3.86 |
| Residual Sugar | Dry |
| Total Acidity | 0.59 g/100ml |
| Bottling Date | 7/14/2015 |
| Production | 1,030 cases |
| Appellation | Spring Mountain District |
| Wine Style | Red Wine |
| Varietal | Cabernet Franc |
| Blend | 100% Cabernet Franc |