Icaria Creek Winery
2018 Cabernet Sauvignon
Alexander Valley

2018 Icaria Creek Cabernet Sauvigon

WINEMAKER TASTING NOTES

Our 2018 has beautiful black color turning to ruby red towards the rim. Tantalizing aromas of chocolate covered boysenberries and blackberries, vanilla, sage and pine fill the glass. Mid palate, rich black fruit, exotic spices on the mid palate. The finish is silky with earth, cedar box and fine tannins that round out the wine to it’s completion.

This rugged hillside fruit presents a mouthful of generous age-worthy structure of mineral and graphite. The extended hang time provides a wonderful mid palate of sweet berries that seem to linger on the palate forever.

Drink now thru 2028. Optimum time 2022-2025.

2018 ICARIA CABERNET SAUVIGNON TECHNICAL INFORMATION
APPLELLATION   Alexander Valley, Sonoma County

VARIETAL BLEND   78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, 7% Malbec

FERMENTATION   5 days cold soak prior to native yeast fermentation. After a 5 brix drop in sugar a domesticated yeast is added to ensure a strong finsih to the fermentation. After 17 days fermentation is complete. No extended maceration is done.

COOPERAGE   Radoux Tight Grain Select 27mm Medium Plus with Toasted heads

AGED   18 Months in 35% New French Oak

SUGAR AT HARVEST   25 brix

HARVEST DATE   October 6th -11th, 2018

FINAL ANALYIS   pH 3.75 TA 0.55g/100ml RS 0.02

132 Cases Produced