Spring Mountain Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Miravalle-La Perla-Chevalier 1996

Cabernet Sauvignon

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Spring Mountain Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Miravalle-La Perla-Chevalier 1996 Front Label

Product Details

Varietal

Cabernet Sauvignon

Producer

Spring Mountain Vineyard

Vintage

1996

Size

750ML

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Winemaker Notes

The wine has a brilliant ruby red color of considerable depth. The wine's aroma gives impressions of smoke and cedarwood. It is developing a bouquet that is becoming more truffle-like and earthy with age. In the mouth, the wine displays a round and full entry on the palate with broad and soft tannins. The evolution of its flavor is a rich and velvety impression with a firm finish.

Alcohol: 13.8% by volume

Spring Mountain Vineyard

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The new Spring Mountain Vineyard was once three separate properties each with its own vineyard and winery: Spring Mountain Vineyards (Miravalle) 257 acres, Chateau Chevalier (Chevalier) 120 acres, and Draper Vineyards (La Perla) 435 acres.

The upper most property on the estate, La Perla, was founded in 1873 by Charles Lemme and expanded by the Schilling Spice family. Originally 285 acres it had the first Cabernet Sauvignon planted on Spring Mountain. The old winery remains today along with much of its original equipment and horse drawn carriages and wagons. Immediately below La Perla, and eventually added to it was the first vineyard planted by Fredrick and Jacob Beringer in 1882. These terraced hillsides were planted in a wide assortment of grape varieties to support the Beringer brothers fledgling winery.

Adjoining to the north of the Beringer vineyard was a Frenchman, Fortune Chevalier, whose stone winery, Chateau Chevalier, was making wine in 1891. And finally, next door to Chevalier was Tiburcio Parrott who grew olives, citrus and grapes. Parrott built a grand home on the estate which he named Miravalle.

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