Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard is located in the South Napa hills. It is a rock pile with full sun exposure and a soil profile that makes it a special site for premium wine grape growing. The farming company that tends this vineyard does a meticulous job of hand-balancing each section of vines on this ranch, based on its row and slope orientation needs. The vines are given personal manicuring throughout the entire growing and ripening season and this detailed attention is reflected in the finished wines.

Deeply colored, the 2017 Sugarloaf Mountain Red Wine checks in at 65% Cabernet Franc and 35% Merlot which spent 22 months in new French oak. It has a killer bouquet of black cherries, currants, ground herbs, Asian spice, and chocolate. Deep, full-bodied, and opulent on the palate, it displays beautiful fruit, some meaty, iron notes, no hard edges, and a great finish.