Lucas & Lewellen Valley View Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
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From Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, and Malbec varieties, all grown on our estate vineyards, we carefully blend a core of Cabernet Sauvignon with small percentages of the other varieties plus a splash of our newest grape variety, Carménère. The result is a distinctive and refined wine with layers of blackberry and fig jam notes with silky tannins and a long finish.
Blend: 76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Malbec, 6% Cabernet Franc, 6% Petit Verdot, 6% Merlot
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Ripe aromas of baked red fruit and rose petal meet with dark, loamy soil and graphite elements on the nose of this bottling from a vineyard that overlooks the Santa Ynez River. Toasty wood spice introduces the palate, where more red fruit and baking spice flavors lead into an herbal finish.
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Over the next twenty-five years, the Lucas and Lewellen families would grow in a deep friendship that would serve as the foundation for Lucas & Lewellen Vineyards, a Solvang, California based winery with four hundred estate acres situated among three of Santa Barbara County’s separate and distinct climate zones, three major wine labels, two popular tasting rooms in downtown Solvang, and a state of the art winery.
A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe, its best examples showing potential to age beautifully for decades. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in Bordeaux's Medoc where it is often blended with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbecand Petit Verdot. In the Napa Valley, ‘Cab’ is responsible for some of the world’s most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after “cult” wines. Somm Secret—DNA profiling in 1997 revealed that Cabernet Sauvignon was born from a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc in 17th century southwest France.
Ranging from cool and foggy in the west to warm and dry in the east, the Santa Ynez Valley is a climatically diverse growing area. The most expansive AVA within the larger Santa Barbara County region, Santa Ynez is also home to a wide variety of soil types and geographical features. The appellation is further divided into four distinct sub-AVAs—Sta. Rita Hills, Ballard Canyon, Los Olivos District and Happy Canyon—each with its own defining characteristics.
A wide selection of grapes is planted here—more than sixty different varieties, and counting. Chardonnay and Pinot Noir dominate in the chilly west, while Zinfandel, Rhône blends, and Bordeaux blends rule the arid east. Syrah is successful at both ends of the valley, with a lean and peppery, Old-World sensibility closer to the coast and lush berry fruit further inland.