2021 Mount Veeder Cabernet Sauvignon

Amentet Vineyard

Mount Veeder

FALL RELEASE

96 POINTS
"The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon (Mt. Veeder) is superb. It captures tons of Veeder character in its savory/mineral intensity and dark fruit. Purplish fruit, blood orange, pomegranate, dried herbs, mint and wild flowers all build as this potent, driving, vivid Cabernet builds in the glass. This is lights out."
- Antonio Galloni, VINOUS, December 2023

750 ml
2021 Mount Veeder Cabernet Sauvignon

"We started our cane-pruned, organically farmed journey on Mount Veeder with Phil Coturri and Enterprise Vineyard Management in 2019. Pruning the all of the vines back slowly, making small cuts and leaving ample room around the trunks so as not to impede sap flow or cause desiccation zones in the vines. This meant going from 22 tons of yield to 9 tons over the next four vintages. It has been an economically painful transition for us as a business, but when I taste our 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon and the 2021 Cabernet Franc from Amentet Vineyard, I know that our pain and suffering in the pocketbook have been well worth it. What a wine this 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon has turned out to be. It is savage, black and untamed with a searing sense of the blue shale soils with chalky, white fossilized marine material that surged up off of the ocean floor five million years ago. 2021 was another low yield vintage for our Amentet Vineyard, but not as crazy low as our sister vineyards on Howell Mountain.

"The balanced vines at 1700’ have produced a Cabernet that is traditional in the best way. Our Mount Veeder 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon features dark floral tones, graphite, conifer forest floor, and explosive dark cassis fruit in its core. The wine is such a child of Mount Veeder that it’s hard to miss in a blind tasting. Enjoy this seminal wine as it begins to show its dimensions. Like the Howell Mountain 2021 Cabernet, an hour decant is recommended if enjoying it a few weeks after arrival."

VINEYARDS: Amentet Estate Vineyard
APPELLATION: Mount Veeder
COMPOSITION: 81% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Cabernet Franc, 8% Malbec
CASES PRODUCED: 342

APPELLATION: MOUNT VEEDER
ELEVATION: 1700'
ACRES: 6.5
VARIETALS: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc

Perched at 1,700’ of elevation along Wall Road on the north end of the Mount Veeder AVA, this 6.5-acre vineyard is destined for greatness. After 22 vintages of purchasing fruit on a handshake contract with the late actor Robin Williams from the neighboring Pym Rae vineyard, it was a joy to receive a first harvest from our own immaculate young vineyard in 2016.

We christened the property Amentet Vineyard, after the Egyptian Goddess of the West. With the “rebirth” of our Veeder Cab, Amentet (pronounced “AH-men-TETT”) seems the perfect patroness—the goddess of fertility and rebirth, who was often depicted with a hawk perched upon her head. Given the number of red tails spotted from our new vineyard, this seems particularly providential.

The site was planted and managed by the same man who farmed the neighboring Pym Rae vineyard for Robin for more than two decades, and it is no surprise that the resulting wines are so similar. The sandy, gravel-based soils of shale with a sandstone topsoil produce wines that are black in color with very low PH values and naturally high acids. A perfect combination for longevity. The beauty of this warmer, fog-free northern section of Mount Veeder is that the wines are free of any unwanted vegetal or rustic characteristics that can affect cooler climate sites to the south.

Our Mount Veeder 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon is savage, black and untamed with a searing sense of the blue shale soils with chalky, white fossilized marine material that surged up off of the ocean floor five million years ago. Look for dark floral tones, graphite, conifer forest floor and explosive dark cassis fruit in its core. The wine is such a child of Mount Veeder that it’s hard to miss in a blind tasting.

VINEYARDS: Amentet Estate Vineyard
APPELLATION: Mount Veeder
COMPOSITION: 81% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Cabernet Franc, 8% Malbec
CASES PRODUCED: 342

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