2011 Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain
United States
Howell Mountain
Napa Valley
Red
84% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot, 5% St. Macaire, 4% Malbec, 2% Petit Verdot
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O’Shaughnessy Estate is the project of Minnesotan Betty O’Shaughnessy, who prior to her Napa Valley adventure had a career in real estate investment and development followed by a stint as owner and teacher of a cooking school in Minneapolis. After falling for Napa Valley she purchased a parcel of land in Oakville in 1990, where she built a home, then bought additional vineyards over the next decade on Howell Mountain (beginning in 1996) and Mount Veeder (in 2000).
I tasted the full line-up of the Howell Mountain Cabernet at O’Shaughnessy’s home on the Oakville Crossroad, where she lives with her second husband Paul Woolls, a lawyer also from the Midwest whom she originally met at a wine tasting in southern California. Her house is surrounded by 32 acres of vineyards and is also the site of her second hobby: a greenhouse in which she raises prize-winning orchids.
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O'Shaughnessy has long been one of my favorite producers in Napa Valley for the overall quality of the wines and pricing that remains incredibly sane by local standards. The estate's 2011s are pretty, if a bit on the delicate side. Winemaker Sean Capiaux did shorter cold soaks and shorter maceration than normal in 2011 in response to the more delicate grapes that came in here and pretty much everywhere. In addition to these wines, I also tasted all of the 2012s in separate components, which was fascinating, as the Howell Mountain Cabernet tends to incorporate dollops of Malbec, Merlot, Petit Verdot, St. Macaire and Cabernet Franc.
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