Winemaker Notes
Vicarious is a high impact and crowd pleasing blended wine. Most often composed of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Petite Sirah, and Syrah but the blend changes every year. This is a pop and pour wine. A playful wine that is intended to be enjoyed with friends on any night of the week. With Vicarious, we’re not trying to make a wine that tastes like a Cabernet, but we are blending to make a wine that tastes like Vicarious as it has its own flavor profile. Offering an incredibly complex bouquet of red and black fruits, new saddle leather, dried flowers, and garrigue. A seamless texture, medium to full body, silky tannins, and a singular, complex character all make for a brilliant wine that’s already drinking great today. It should keep for 10-15 years or more.
Undoubtedly proving its merit over and over, Napa Valley is a now a leading force in the world of prestigious red wine regions. Though Cabernet Sauvignon dominates Napa Valley, other red varieties certainly thrive here. Important but often overlooked include Merlot and other Bordeaux varieties well-regarded on their own as well as for their blending capacities. Very old vine Zinfandel represents an important historical stronghold for the region and Pinot noir is produced in the cooler southern parts, close to the San Pablo Bay.
Perfectly situated running north to south, the valley acts as a corridor, pulling cool, moist air up from the San Pablo Bay in the evenings during the hot days of the growing season, which leads to even and slow grape ripening. Furthermore the valley claims over 100 soil variations including layers of volcanic, gravel, sand and silt—a combination excellent for world-class red wine production.