Winemaker Notes
Delightfully uncomplicated, with a lush roundness and harmonious tannins that leave you with dark and lively berry fruit notes.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
The wine opens with black cherry, a sublayer of blueberry and then jumps to pomegranate and raspberry in your glass. Black tea chimes in on the midpalate briefly before resting in a pile of limestone and pencil shavings soaked in delicious black fruit. Give this wine 30 minutes to open in your glass before drinking to get the best of it.
Cabernet Franc, a proud parent of Cabernet Sauvignon, is the subtler and more delicate of the Cabernets. Today Cabernet Franc produces outstanding single varietal wines across the wine-producing world. Somm Secret—One of California's best-kept secrets is the Happy Canyon appellation of Santa Barbara. Here Cabernet Franc shines as a single varietal wine or in blends, expressing sumptuous fruit, savory aromas and polished tannins.
Known for its delightful whites and sparkling Pétillant and Mousseux, made predominantly of Chenin blanc, Anjou has a temperate and dry maritime climate. The region's limited temperature variations are admiringly referred to locally as the “douceur angevine,” or “Anjou sweetness.” Fruit forward rosé and red wines from Cabernet Franc and Gamay merit Anjou its success within the Loire subregions.