2015 Kayli Morgan Cabernet Sauvignon 1 MagnumKayli Morgan

WINEMAKER NOTES:

All Hundred Acre wines are made by sorting the fruit berry by berry, fermenting in small, French oak fermenters, and long aging in the nest barriques. The secret to Hundred Acre is no compromise and no detail overlooked, ever.

The 2015 vintage will forever be defined as the height of the drought in Napa Valley. The vines were under tremendous stress with a warm, long growing season and very limited access to water. These drought conditions led to small berries, tight clusters and tremendous
concentration. Unfortunately, these conditions also led to significantly lower yields than the 2014 vintage.

VINEYARD NOTES:

Kayli Morgan is where it all started. In August of 2000, I paid the highest price to date ever paid for planted vineyard land in Napa Valley. After examining the vineyard over a week’s time, I knew I had to own it and that it would make one of the world’s greatest wines. Six weeks later we harvested the first vintage of Hundred Acre, and in a year that was panned by the press, I made one of the highest scoring wines of the vintage...the rest is history.

The Kayli Morgan Vineyard is located just north of Saint Helena, California at the base of Howell Mountain. The soils are a chocolatey clay, holding moisture to keep the vines cool. As summer progresses, the ground forms micro-cracks, allowing the roots to seek water deeper and deeper into the earth; as they do, they pick up minerals that give Kayli Morgan its distinctive characteristics. Kayli Morgan is a single estate vineyard and 100% Cabernet Sauvignon.

COOPERAGE:

Hundred Acre wines are aged for a minimum of 30 months in the finest center cut of French oak barrique. The stave wood is hand-selected for ultra-tight grain, then air dried for three years before being made into barrels.