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Winemaker Bob Foley describes 1998 as "the highest-anxiety growing season ever" for this winery on Spring Mountain. The harvest for Pride cabernet extended into early DecemberÂ—but then this estate picks into November in most years. Still, the fruit eventually ripened, and may even have benefitted from the long hang time, judging by the intensity shown by these wines in early March. Foley enjoys a strong reputation, yet I feel he's still somewhat underrated. The wines he crafts for Pride (and for Paloma and, beginning in '98, for his own label) are essence-of-mountain-fruit with their vibrant, sappy, superconcentrated aromas and flavors of dark berries; yet they manage to avoid the rustic, tough tannins that make so many similar mountain wines rough going in their youth. Foley's wines will never be mistaken for Bordeaux, but they are utterly compelling examples of ripe California fruit. The selection for Pride's reserve wines is typically for sheer extract and thickness, according to Foley. "Jim Pride basically tells me to pick my favorite lots; he says Â‘if nobody wants them we'll drink themÂ’." The reserve wines are bottled about six months later than the regular releases.

From Focus on California (May 2000) by Stephen Tanzer

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1998 Cabernet Franc Sonoma County

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