Hail Oberon!
Cab Sauvignon
Bursting upon
Us like the dawn
And like a swan
Near a salon
Cab Sauvignon
Will carry on
Serve on the lawn
Play Elton John
Find whereupon
Your sadness gone
Two Oberon
Cab Sauvignons
Like fine bullion
To a dragon
In short, be gone
You set-upons!
Run to Oman!
Exchange your yuan!
Cab Sauvignon
By Oberon
Enjoy and bond
We've made you yawn
Go raise your spawn
Maybe they’ll be blonde
The color on
Goldie Hawn
2008 Oberon Hillside Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley 750ml 2-Pack
After gently de-stemming and crushing the fruit, winemaker Tony Coltrin fermented the free-run juice in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, stretching the post-fermentation maceration period to 28 days. This extended juice-skin contact time beautifully married the intense, dark fruit flavors and mature, supple tannins of our Hillside Reserve, giving the wine an opulent mouthfeel. Malolactic fermentation in barrel, combined with 18 months aging in French oak barrels, 87% new. further concentrated the wine’s big, ripe fruit, adding nuances of coffee and toasted vanilla to its lush, lingering finish. Enjoy this luxurious Cabernet Sauvignon with grilled steak, rib roasts, lamb shanks, and venison.
Vintage 2008: Napa Valley’s 2008 growing season was dramatic, but resulted in excellent quality fruit with great flavor concentration. A very dry spring caused buds to emerge early and, thus, experience a record frost in late March and early April, which significantly cut the crop. The early vine development was slowed down by a cool summer of consistent temperatures, and harvest began only slightly ahead of normal. A heat spell in late August sped up ripening suddenly, but cool fall temperatures that followed lengthened the harvest. This was the second consecutive dry growing season in the Napa Valley and the reduced crops resulted in vines yielding berries that showed great expression of their vineyards and rich, concentrated flavors.
Napa Valley Vineyards – Three Elevations: Winemaker Tony Coltrin has identified three exceptional hillside vineyards whose well-drained soils and optimum sun exposures result in small crops of intensely flavored grapes. Varied elevations provide three distinct sets of geographical characteristics - for three unique sets of soils and microclimates. Fruit from each vineyard reveals its own flavors and textures, giving the wine a layered expression of extraordinary Napa Valley terroir. Our vineyard in Atlas Peak (1,320 feet) adds nuances of blackberry and dark cherry; the Michael Mondavi Family’s Oso Vineyard (1,220 feet), at the base of Howell Mountain, contributes elegance and structure; and Suscol Vineyard (250 feet), in the southern foothills of the Vaca Mountains, imparts density, richness and depth.
35 Years of Napa Valley Roots: Napa Valley native and winemaker, Tony Coltrin, brings more than 35 years of winemaking experience to Oberon, with expertise in sourcing quality fruit from the best vineyards in the valley and understanding the region’s uniqueness for growing classic Bordeaux varieties. His long-standing relationships with local growers ensure a consistency in the quality of the grapes grown in premier Napa Valley sub-appellations for Oberon.
35 Years of Napa Valley Roots: Napa Valley native and winemaker, Tony Coltrin, brings more than 35 years of winemaking experience to Oberon, with expertise in sourcing quality fruit from the best vineyards in the valley and understanding the region’s uniqueness for growing classic Bordeaux varieties. His long-standing relationships with local growers ensure a consistency in the quality of the grapes grown in premier Napa Valley sub-appellations for Oberon.
Rob Mondavi, Jr. literally learned winemaking at the knees of his father Michael, grandfather Robert and Uncle Tim. As a child, he also chased winemaker Tony Coltrin around Robert Mondavi Winery, where Tony began working in 1973.Since then, Rob and Tony have pursued parallel paths in Napa Valley, immersing themselves in the culture of wine and developing a love for grape-growing and winemaking. It is that shared passion that fuels their present-day partnership: creating the fine wines of Oberon, which honor Napa Valley and the Mondavi family’s rich winemaking heritage.
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