2021 Corison Kronos Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley, USA Drink Wines Not Labels The 2018 Vintage of Cabernet

The 2018 Vintage of Cabernet Sauvignon will be remembered for the mild summer and near-perfect fall we experienced in Napa Valley

is still gaining in class

The grapes undergo whole-cluster

Grapes are destemmed and fermented in amphorae with ~2 weeks of maceration on the skins

“Jakot” is a thumbing of the nose at the EU—a reversal of “Tokaj”—since the use of the word Tokai/Tokaj was banned for the grape except in Hungary

2021 Corison Kronos Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley, USA Drink Wines Not Labels The 2018 Vintage of CabernetLocated by William Martin and purchased in 1995, Kronos Vineyard is one of the last old Cabernet vineyards in the Napa Valley. Planted in 1971 on St. George rootstock, which is completely resistant to Phylloxera, the gnarly, wise old ladies are almost 50 years old! Yields are pitifully low at 1. 25 tons acre, but the singular wine it produces proves it to be one of the great Cabernet vineyards of the world. Cathy considers it a gift to have the