Winemaker Notes
Blend: 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Petit Verdot
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This tightly wound and powerful wine is laced with fine-grained tannins to support dark chocolate and quite-ripe blackberry and blueberry flavors that have a satisfying richness and depth. Time will ease the tannic grip, so best to drink from 2026–2036.
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Pedregal Vineyard brings the addition of 20% Petit Verdot and is aromatic with notes of menthol, redcurrant, and leather. Ripe and full bodied, it has great freshness, with balance in its notes of red and black fruit and gravelly earth. It has a rocky texture, with ripe tannins that are broad and have some grip. Drink 2026-2046.
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Wine Spectator
This has an old-school edge, with a winey core of gently mulled red and black currant fruit mixed with warm earth, singed cedar, balsam wood and savory details. The long finish moves steadily, leaving a nice tug of earth that echoes. Drink now through 2034.
A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe, its best examples showing potential to age beautifully for decades. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in Bordeaux's Medoc where it is often blended with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbecand Petit Verdot. In the Napa Valley, ‘Cab’ is responsible for some of the world’s most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after “cult” wines. Somm Secret—DNA profiling in 1997 revealed that Cabernet Sauvignon was born from a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc in 17th century southwest France.
Home to some of the most sought-after Cabernet Sauvignon in America, Napa Valley’s Oakville district stretches across the center of Napa's valley floor and foothills between the Vaca and Mayacamas Mountains. This AVA is home to the legendary To Kalon Vineyard and Martha's Vineyard, as well as many powerhouse wineries including Screaming Eagle, Silver Oak, Robert Mondavi, Opus One, Far Niente and Groth.
The climate is generally warm and agreeable, resulting in year after year of favorable vintages. Summer days see a gentle tug of war between warmer inland air and the cool air coming in from the San Pablo Bay, creating an ideal environment to grow red varieties. Oakville's diverse soils, namely ancient sea bedrock, clay and gravel, are well-drained, and perfect for high-caliber viticulture.
Cabernet here is often bottled varietally but is also popular in Bordeaux Blends. Oakville wines are known for their silky, sensual textures, structured tannins, dark and brooding fruit and lovely aromatics. These age-worthy and prestigious wines are favored by collectors throughout the world.