Winc Pacificana Oak Aged Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
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At Winc, the mission is to create wine brands that speak to today’s drinker. As the largest digital-first wine company in the US, Winc leverages their customer data to curate a sought-after selection of brands, such as Summer Water, Folly of the Beast & Chop Shop. Once a wine becomes successful, they partner with wholesalers, retailers and restaurants to introduce it to a larger audience.
Winc takes pride in the fact that their approach to grape sourcing and winemaking is progressive and thoughtful. Since their inception, Winc has used their unique skill sets to create a wine team that is successful at small-lot winemaking. They then apply those small-lot winemaking techniques, skills and philosophies to winemaking on a larger scale. In the 2019 harvest alone, the house-made wines were from grapes representing 39 different varieties, 11 regions, and 54 vineyards in California alone. Not to mention sparkling wine, wine in a can, and cider.
Diversity is something done well at Winc.
Covering the most vine acreage in the state compared to any other red wine variety, Cabernet Sauvignon produces as much wine in California as Merlot and Pinot Noir combined. The state’s diverse terrain and microclimates, as well as the freedom of its winemakers, allow for an incredible range of wine styles from this single grape.
California’s most famous region—and especially for Cabernet Sauvignon—is the acclaimed Napa Valley. While Cabernet is successful throughout the world, rarely has it achieved such merit as it does from the Napa Valley. At this point the two are so intrinsically linked that it is difficult to discuss one without the other.
Napa’s closest neighbor, Sonoma County, does an impressive job keeping up with Napa’s fame and glory. Alexander Valley, Sonoma Mountain, Moon Mountain and Knights Valley contribute to the lot of some of California’s top-rated Cabernet Sauvignon.
Lake County in California’s North Coast has become a focus for some of Napa’s more respected growers. From the Central Coast come iconic examples of classic California Cabernet; Lodi and the Sierra Foothills are great budget-friendly sources of amicable Cabernets.