Origin: Sonoma Mountain AVA, California
Grape: 100% Cabernet Franc
Year: 2014
Alcohol: 13.3%
Price point: $33
Year Reviewed: 2018
There is a certain love of cab franc that I have and have also witnessed this in other cab franc lovers. I can smell and taste cab franc down to a 2% blend. Half the taste is experienced with the smell and aroma of the wine.
This Cab Franc smells like a sweet floral perfume of violets and vanilla……a high end rich perfume. Shall I rub it on my wrist? I also get aromas of wood and earth. Once you smell it, you will remember its seductive smell and when you taste cab franc in other blends, you should be able to pick it up.
On the palate, this wine gives some soft chocolate and tobacco flavors. I also get some allspice flavors in it and not the green pepper taste others say they receive. If I had to go with a pepper I taste in this bottle, it would be more of a green chili pepper from Hatch, New Mexico. (Wow, I can imagine pairing this wine with a green chili burger from Sparky’s in Hatch, New Mexico…….where is my plane ticket.)
Soft tannins with a puckering berry and coffee long finish lingers on.
Fun stuff; Background story from Missiandwine.blogspot.com, that the wine producers were originally from Minnesota, moved to Mexico and eventually moved to CA to make wine. The bottles are screen printed and actually glow in the dark.
Also on the back of the bottles is some odd words and I wondered what the heck that meant. It is the playlist of music that was on when the wine was being made. How cute.