At Navarro we take pride in our wide customer base and inclusive pricing. However, we admit to being total elitist snobs in regards to the grapes we purchase. Very few vineyards grow grapes that we admit into our Cabernet Sauvignon. We've purchased Cabernet from Eaglepoint ranch since 1978. Fruit from a small sunny block, Red Hill, has always produced our best wine. Our customers have wanted us to produce a little more Cab but it hasn't been easy. We've purchased grapes from other fields at Eaglepoint; some warm years they are ripe enough to add to the Red Hill and some years not. When we've tried purchasing Cabernet grapes from other Mendocino growers most of the wine has been downgraded to Navarrouge. In 2001 we were offered some grapes from Kohn Vineyards that proved classy enough to mingle with the Eaglepoint. The Kohn property contains a highly-rated Bordeaux clone of Cabernet on good rootstock planted in gravelly alluvial soils. The crop was modest, the vines were healthy, well tended, farmed organically and bio-dynamically. This seemed like perfect fruit for Navarro to try.

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Eaglepoint's Red Hill was their ripest Cabernet in four vintages and brought bright cassis fruit to the blend. The wine from Kohn Vineyards, 15% of the blend, provided structure and lengthened the palate. This is a big chewy wine with nuances of mountain grown coffee, black licorice, tobacco and leather. Gold Medal winner. 6 bottle limit.

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