2009 Cabernet Sauvignon Perseid
United States
Coombsville
Napa
Red
Cabernet Sauvignon
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First planted by vineyard guru Mike Wolf in 1999, Meteor has emerged as one of the top sites in Coombsville, not just for these wines, but also for the handful of other wineries who source fruit here. Dawnine Dyer makes the wines for proprietors Barry and Tracy Schulman, who came to Napa Valley after highly successful careers in technology.
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Meteor still only bottles about 25% of their production, but winemaker Dawnine Dyer told me she's retaining more and more of the estate's clone 7 cabernet for Meteor's own wines, especially for the estate's reserve program. Soils at this Coombsville property are volcanic, with a lot of calcium but also "lots of light fluffy stuff and cobbles." Dyer added that excessive vigor is a concern with St. George rootstock, but that this dry site is self-regulating owing to the soil's minimal water-holding capacity. Dyer does a cold soak prior to fermentation but does not believe in carrying out post-fermentation maceration.
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These three wines from Meteor are made from vineyards in Coombsville, which became California's 16th AVA as we went to press.
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This well-placed property in cool Coombsville, with 22 acres of cabernet sauvignon planted on mostly rocky volcanic ash, began bottling wines under their own label in 2005. The owners still sell off 80% of their fruit, to the likes of Etude, Robin Lail, Arietta and Favia. Dawnine and Bill Dyer, who are partners in this project and make the Meteor wines, were out of town at the time of my early March visit. So I tasted new vintages with general manager Jason Alexander, who told me that the team finished harvesting in 2009 the day before the heavy rains began. He's a big fan of 2008, the "fire and ice" vintage that brought a small crop with what he described as great purity of fruit. He believes 2007 is a more structured wine but I had the feeling that evolving winemaking technique and increasing vine age have produced steadily better wines here in the last few years.
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