Monte Rosso Cabernet Sauvignon was handcrafted from grapes 100 percent from the legendary Monte Rosso Vineyard. This impressive, full-bodied red wine has great depth and a surprisingly soft mouthfeel for such concentrated fruit. The wine swirls with aromas that include black cherry, earth and the classic Monte Rosso spice. On the palate, it offers red and dark fruit flavors including raspberry and blackberry, plus black fig and hints of dusty chocolate and espresso. Aging in French and American Oak created assertive-but-smooth tannins that melt seamlessly into a lingering, elegant finish filled with flavors of anise, toasted oak and vanilla.
Reduced and highly concentrated, this powerful wine is brooding in black peppercorn, leather and a wealth of black color and black fruit
Boisterous aromas are dominated by black cherry juice and red currant. Juicy and lively in the mouth with youthful red plum and black raspberry. A medium bodied middle leads to a generous and fruit forward finish.
Aromas of dusty cedar atop simmered plums and blackberry jam infused with subtle dried herbs. Very direct in the mouth with concentrated blackberry and a firm structure that leads to a muscular finish of cocoa powder and tea leaf.
The Louis M. Martini Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon wine reflects the best of the warm, narrow Dry Creek Valley and the hot yet wind-cooled Alexander Valley. Together, these unique features create a rich, superbly balanced Cabernet Sauvignon with copious yet supple tannins. Those tannins make the young wine approachable but will still give it enough texture to age gracefully. This vintage had a long, calm growing season, helping create elevated and concentrated flavors that include wild berries, plum, licorice and mocha. The full-bodied and mouth-coating feel on the palate leads to a long, graceful finish with tones of intense fruit, dried herbs and cedar inside firm structure.
Our Louis M. Martini Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon exhibits a deep burgundy color and complex aromas of dark fruit and dried herbs. On the palate, concentrated flavors of blackberry, black cherry and cassis are framed by licorice and toasted cedar on the long finish. Rich and broad in the mouth, this excellently balanced wine has an expansive mid-palate and sturdy tannins that will allow it to be enjoyed for a decade or more.
The grapes for our Gnarly Vine Zinfandel were hand-harvested and sorted by hand. At the winery, the grapes were given a 3-day cold soak to extract color and flavor before they were gravity-fed into our small-lot, open-top tanks. Up to 10 days following primary fermentation, the wine was gravity racked into oak barrels for malolactic fermentation. We aged the wine as individual barrel lots through winter and spring and assembled the majority of the blend in July. It was then aged several more months in barrel plus 12 months in bottle to allow the flavors to integrate. In total, this wine was oak aged for 14 months in a mix of 66% new French oak, 16% new American oak and 18% used oak.