2011 Cabernet Sauvignon The Ranch

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Diana Snowden Seysses has done a terrific job with her 2011s, wines that capture the style and essence of the year. This is the vintage where Snowden Seysses had to trust her instincts, but I am sure her experience making wine in Burgundy, where challenging conditions are much more normal - was a big plus too. The 2011s are a bit more slender than normal, as most wines are, but they also show terrific balance and class. I also tasted through all the 2012s as separate components prior to blending. Those wines were gorgeous, so it will be interesting to see how the 2012s turn out from bottle.

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"Two thousand eleven was a scary vintage in which it was a challenge to ripen the cabernet sauvignon up here [in the hills above Auberge de Soleil in Rutherford, next to Sloan] and I handled it differently," said Diana Snowden in March. Although the red grapes were harvested between October 14 and 23, Snowden noted that the wines are cleaner than the family's '09s, which were from fruit picked after the rain. Interestingly, the flowering was healthy here in '11, so the Snowdens needed to drop crop to ripen the rest. The alcohol levels in the finished wines are in the relatively low 13.5% to 13.7% range, and Snowden did not chaptalize. "I did a delicate extraction because I did not want to lose precision or get bitter tannins," said Snowden, who told me that she doesn't worry about pleasing lovers of classic opulent Napa Valley wines. She described 2010 as "a cooler vintage in the style of '08; we used a shaker table to remove raisins." Her first vintage vinifying at the family domain was 2005, and 2010 is her favorite to date.

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