Clos du Val Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 Napa Valley

Clos du Val was born in the early 1970s, when young couple John and Henrietta Goelet were living in France. They fell in love with the countries rich wine culture and dreamt of founding a winery themselves. A meeting with Bernard Portet, a young man who had spent his childhood growing up at the world famous Ch‰teau, Lafite Rothschild. Bernard was fresh out of winemaking school and heavily influenced by the Bordeaux tradition This meeting turned out to be the start of their Journey. They Challenged Bernard to travel the world and find a place where they could grow Cabernet Sauvignon to rival the best in the world. Bernard's trip led him to California's Napa Valley, to the now famous Stags leap district, and the rest, as they say, is history, with Clos du Val now being in it's 3rd Generation of Goelet ownership Focussed on the Bordeaux traditions, winemaking and grapes, this Cabernet Sauvignon is aged for a year in French oak barrels, 30% of which are new. The Clos du Val Cabernet sauvignon first came to the worlds attention when it featured in the now legendary Judgement of Paris in 1976. Expect a vibrant, fresh wine with blackberry, red plum and mulberry mingling with notes of Cassis, and lavender on top of oak spice the tannins are soft and it has a lingering, smooth finish. Classic Napa Cab.