Portfolio Red Wine Napa Valley 2014

Genevieve Janssens, the recently retired head winemaker at Robert Mondavi, makes about 9 barrels of Portfolio each year in her garage, along with her husband Luc. In 2014 the blend consists of 85% Cabernet Sauvignon from block 8 at the Hendry Ranch in west Napa and 15% Cabernet Franc from Detert East up on the Oakville bench, part of the historic To Kalon vineyard. Deeply concentrated yet beautifully balanced, the wine exhibits sweet dark cherry and blackberry fruits along with a chocolate nutiness from 30 months aging in 100% new French oak. Uniquely suited to both meditation and celebration, another tour de force.