Product Details
2018 Cabernet Franc Spring Mountain District
Vineyard Notes
2018 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 September 24th and October 8th, 2018. 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.
Vinous, Antonio Galloni
January 2021
95 Points
“The 2018 Cabernet Franc Upper Bowl Vineyard is effusive and soaring in the glass. Crushed red berry, mocha, wild herbs, cinnamon and blood orange lend an exotic air to the 2018 that is impossible to miss. The same can be said for the way the 2018 delivers so much fruit intensity without heaviness. It is such a gorgeous wine.”
Wine Data
| Size | 750 ml |
|---|---|
| Vintage | 2018 |
| Alcohol | 14.1%% |
| pH | 3.83 |
| Residual Sugar | Dry |
| Total Acidity | 0.60 grams/100ml |
| Bottling Date | 7/01/2020 |
| Production | 780 cases |
| Appellation | Spring Mountain District |
| Wine Style | Red Wine |
| Varietal | Cabernet Franc |
| Blend | 100% Cabernet Franc |