2017 Schweiger Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon, Spring Mountain District, Napa Valley, CaliforniaABOUT THIS WINE 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. 24th bottles of Schweiger's Estate Bottled Cabernet Sauvignon. ABOUT THIS PRODUCER Schweiger Vineyards harvested their first grapes in 1984 and produced their first commercial vintage in 1994. The original 8 acres was purchased by Fred Schweiger in 1961 when he was 19 years of age. Fred paid $250 per acre for land that was completely forested; of all the vintners we have met in Napa Valley, perhaps Fred was the

which he has wanted to pass into the wines produced by him

His 22- year-old son Nicolás Catena Zapata

this Pinot Noir is sourced from vineyards in the Russian River Valley and sees a mixture of new and used oak for aging

this priory was transformed into a Château

The grapes are picked up by hand and the method of making wine

In the vineyards our farming is reverting back to what we might have seen when our family began farming and working with pinot noir 100 years ago and perhaps closer to the way the monks farmed it hundreds of years ago

then travelled around the French Alps for a few years

without the addition of S02

"La Bodega Nueva" (The New Cellar)

the estate was named La Verrière in 1427

After clarification

helping with both drainage and moisture retention