Sterling Organic Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
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In its inaugural vintage, our 2007 Organic Cabernet Sauvignon matches straightforward, fruit-focused character with finesse and grace. The wine opens with a deep purple color and ripe black fruit lifted by toasty oak and vanilla. Well-integrated tannins carry the blackberry, currant and plum flavors through the middle and into a lengthy finish. Smooth and polished, the wine holds a fine balance of firm, ripe fruit and lively acidity, making a versatile pairing for a variety of foods, such as a rustic Italian torte or grilled steak dressed in fresh herbs. With this wine, we wanted to translate the purity of the vineyard into the glass, ushering the grapes from field to bottle with minimal intervention. We used simple, traditional techniques, extracting the maximum aromas and flavors with extended maceration and frequent pump-overs. For complexity and character, we aged the wine for 16 months in American and French oak barrels.
Sterling Napa Valley wines show the depth, strength and expressive quality of California’s most famous wine region. Fruit for Sterling wines is grown throughout Napa Valley, from the cool southern Carneros region next to San Pablo Bay to the rugged northernmost bench-lands and reaches near our Calistoga homeplace. Sterling has more than five decades of winemaking excellence in Napa Valley, and winemaker Harry Hansen is able to build from that experience to select the finest lots to create the most memorable expressions of the varietal for each vintage. Key to the signature Sterling style is the contribution of fruit from our home base surrounding Calistoga, where fully ripe fruit offers soft tannins, black fruit profiles and approachability, alongside the firmer tannins evident in fruit from Diamond Mountain, offering great balance in the final assemblage and cuvée.