This impeccably made wine, the home project of two mothers, Lisa Behrens of Behrens and Hitchcock (now known as Erna Schein) and Francoise Peschon, Araujo Estate’s winemaker, is a 425-case blend of 96% Cabernet Sauvignon and 4% Cabernet Franc. Fashioned from multiple Calistoga vineyard sites, it is a beautiful, deep ruby/purple-tinged wine offering notes of lead pencil shavings, sweet black currants, spring flowers, and subtle new oak. While built on finesse, elegance, and precision, it reveals abundant flavor intensity, power, richness, and length.
Robert Parker
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