Wine Color: Red

Vintage: 2005

Varietals: 90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Petit Verdot

Appellation: 100% Livermore Valley, San Francisco Bay

Winemaker: Karl D. Wente

Alcohol: 14.0%

PH: 3.65

Acid: 0.58 g/100ml

Residual Sugar: Dry

Vineyard:

One of the Livermore Valley’s most prominent pioneers, Charles
Wetmore is honored with our finest expression of the noble Cabernet
Sauvignon.  The descendants of vines Wetmore brought from France in the 19th
century thrive today in the gravelly loam soils of our estate vineyards between the
Arroyo del Valle and the Arroyo Mocho, streams flowing from the southern hills
of the Livermore Valley. From their origins in Margaux in the 1880’s to the
present, only the best of these Cabernet Sauvignon vines have been selected for
each new generation planted. And they are prized for making wines with
intensity, depth of flavor, and rich, lush body.

Fermentation:

The fermentation took place in small, upright, stainless steel
fermenters.  The fermenting must was gently pumped-over twice daily.

Aging:

12 months in a combination of French and American oak barrels.