Snowden Vineyards Napa Valley Cabernet Franc Melchior Kemper Vineyard 2021 CRUSEBUB chamomile flowers

chamomile flowers

stretching out to the coolest ‘reaches’ of the appellation’s high elevation coastal ridges

Aged for 15 months in charred American oak barrels

Managed by the De Luca family since 2000

which makes The Tribe the bottle to have on hand for events

Snowden Vineyards Napa Valley Cabernet Franc Melchior Kemper Vineyard 2021 CRUSEBUB chamomile flowersMelchior Kemper farmed this Napa ranch from 1881 to 1895. Today his name sits on 962 vines of Cabernet Franc planted at 800 feet in the Vaca Mountains. The Snowden family has stewarded the land since 1955, and the wines are made by third generation Diana Snowden Seysses, who spends half her year making wine at Burgundy's Domaine Dujac. That double life shows: native yeasts, restraint, and a flat refusal to chase generic Napa richness. This is