Region: Napa Valley, California

Vintage: 2013

Composition: 88% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot, and 3% Cab Franc

History: The first wine Heidi made for La Sirena began as a chance opportunity: a custom crush wine for a failed client. She had been hired to make Sangiovese during the 1994 vintage for a new brand, but found herself in a conflict of interest situation with her family, who had other ties to the winery. The wine was already made and quite delicious, but the client had to abandon the project. They were going to put the wine on the bulk market and she thought, ‘This is my chance to start my own winery, maybe I could buy it!

Tasting Notes:

Deep dark blackberry in color with open aromas of ripe berries and all the black fruits, currants, plums, and blackberries. Very pure and concentrated with lovely french oak nuances and layers. Across the palate this is about as good as it gets. Delicious, expressive, explosive yet refined. Perfect balance and ripeness. It has the right amount of chewy textural tannins in the mid palate with amazing length. This is a blockbuster vintage and a great example of Cabernet Sauvignon at its best. Impressive right out of the shoot but will prove to be quite age worthy as well.