2010 Tyler Florence Napa Valley Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 1.5L Magnum
Our 2010 Tyler Florence Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve is bold and concentrated, with beautifully balanced flavors of dark berry, cassis, and toasted oak. It is best paired with ingredients that can stand up to intense flavor – like Steak au Poivre, one of Tyler’s favorite romantic meals.
Chef Tyler Florence and the Michael Mondavi family, long-time Napa Valley vintners, share a passion for pairing food and wine. Now Tyler has teamed up with Rob Mondavi, fourth generation winemaker, to craft three Limited-Production wines: Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve, Pinot Noir, and Zinfandel. These wines are sourced from exceptional California vineyards where each varietal takes on world-class expression.
Vintage 2010: The 2010 vintage in Napa Valley was late, cool, and long. A very wet winter caused bud break and the start to the growing season to be delayed from average by a couple of weeks. The cool weather continued throughout the summer, with foggy mornings, clear afternoons, and cool evenings. Harvest began several weeks behind the usual timing. This required a lot of patience in the vineyards, waiting for the optimal time to pick, but allowed for a slow and steady ripening of the berries to maximize the grapes’ concentration and deepen their complexity.
Specs
Vineyards: The grapes for this extraordinary blend were hand-selected from a single vineyard in the Rutherford AVA. Located east of the Napa River, the warm climate and deep, well-drained soils provide the wine with rich, sophisticated, and earthy elements.
Winemaking: After gentle hand-harvest, destemming and crush, the free-run juice was fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, stretching post-fermentation skin contact for 28 days. This extended maceration fully integrated the wine’s concentrated fruit character with its firm tannins for a rich mouthfeel. Malolactic fermentation took place in barrel, combined with 22 months aging in French oak (77% new).
- Appellation: Napa Valley
- Varietal Composition: 89% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Petite Sirah, 4% Petit Verdot
- Alcohol – 14.6%
- TA – 6.56 g/L
- pH – 3.56
