799,99€
approx. £658.79
/100 Wine Spectator
Antonio Galloni, tasting note published in January 14th 2020
Las Posadas 2016 is a stunning Howell Mountain wine. Colour laden, rich and hedonistically beautiful, the 2016 is simply magnificent. Crème de cassis, chocolate, menthol, liquorice, lavender, cloves, mint, graphite and crushed rocks are all soaked into the glass. Unctuous, creamy and super expressive, Las Posadas captures the opulence of Howell Mountain. It is simply magnificent in every way.
All the harvesting is done by hand and the wine is entirely aged in barrels, of which 70 to 100% in new barrels, depending on the year, for 12 months for the white and 18 months for the red before being bottled.
Contains sulphites.
SKU: 106669
Cappella is one of the oldest vineyard sites in St Helena. Six acres that sit next to a Catholic cemetery on the west side of town, it was first planted in 1869. In the 1980s, the church asked David to grub up the old vines, and then he watched as the land lay fallow for about two decades. When he finally got the chance to replant, he jumped at it. He had tasted fruit from Cappella in the 1970s. He knew what kind of wine he could make. But that first replanting was unsuccessful thanks to diseased rootstocks, and once again he was uprooting vines. “It took us six years before we had a crop. We could have ignored it, ripping out the vines one by one as they collapsed. But then we would have all these different ripening patterns, which would impact on consistency. It was an easy decision.
P.O. Box 89, Rutherford, CA 94573 707-963-3465 info@abreuvineyards.com
