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Description
Description
The Three Palms Vineyard site was the summer home of spunky Lillie Hitchcock Coit in the 1800s. While Lillie is memorialized by San Francisco's most famous landmark, Coit Tower, the Three Palms Vineyard is equally legendary in Napa Valley. This stony vineyard yields intense, extroverted wines with deep fruit character, distinctive minerality and muscular tannin, making them very similar to those made from mountain-grown fruit. Match this robust wine with bold foods, such as grilled rib-eye steak, savory lamb stew or short ribs.
Wine & Vintage Details
Wine & Vintage Details
Tasting Note
Our 2011 Three Palms Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon comes from a stony vineyard that yields intense, extroverted wines with deep fruit character and muscular tannins, making them very similar to those made from mountain-grown fruit. Napa Valley's unusually cool 2011 vintage slowly ripened the Cabernet Sauvignon grapes and intensified the Three Palms Vineyard's expression of minerality, while providing a firm tannin and acid structure. The wine exudes brambly blackberry, wild plum and Bing cherry character, with complex nuances of tobacco leaf and forest loam. Hints of almond and baking spices from 100 percent new French barrels add warm tones to the expansive aromas and dense, textured flavors.
Vintage
The persistently cool 2011 vintage decreased yields in Napa Valley, but the remaining grapes ripened slowly, achieving bright, elegant flavors. For the second consecutive year, Napa Valley's harvest was one of the latest on record. A wet winter and spring continued into mid-June, causing shatter during bloom and reducing the crop. While the steadily cool temperatures made us anxious and gave us gray hair, this wine; with its depth of flavor and ripe, muscular tannins; that this temperamental vintage produced many exceptional wines.
Vineyard & Winemaking Details
Vineyard & Winemaking Details
Calistoga AVA
Vineyard
We harvested the grapes from a 1.82-acre block of Cabernet Sauvignon in Three Palms Vineyard. The soil of this valley-floor vineyard is full of volcanic cobblestones that have been washed down from Dutch Henry Canyon in northern Napa Valley. The stones radiate heat and also force the vines to struggle for water and nutrients, resulting in small-berried Cabernet Sauvignon clusters with exceptional color and flavor concentration.
Winemaking
We hand-harvested the Cabernet Sauvignon at dawn and then hand-sorted the fruit twice at the winery. After we destemmed the clusters, maintaining 60 percent whole berries to maximize fruitiness, we cold-soaked the must to gently extract flavors and color. Following fermentation and extended maceration, we aged the wine in a high percentage of new French oak barrels (medium to medium-plus toast) to balance this richly flavored Cabernet Sauvignon.
Chris Cooney - Former Winemaker
Before starting at Provenance, Chris traveled the world to work harvests in many areas including Germany and Australia and returned to school to earn his Masters degree from the University of California, Davis, in 2002.
"Winemaking is about expressing the character of the place. Each vineyard has it own distinct personality. During the winemaking process we try to highlight and polish the best attributes while smoothing out any rough edges. Whether we blend fruit from different vineyards or emphasize a single vineyard block, our goal is to get all the grapes to play nice with each other. When we're successful the final wine is a harmonious expression of origin--whether that origin is a single vineyard, multiple vineyards, and appellation or a sub appellation."
| Alcohol % | 14% |
|---|---|
| Oak Treatment | 22 Months, 100% New French Oak |
| Blend | 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Petit Verdot, 1% Cabernet Franc |
| Case Production | 357 cases |