Helena, Napa Valley. Corison is most known for her Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, from vineyards she always worked with and her estate Kronos bottling, but she has been using Sunbasket for some time and has done a single vineyard Cab Franc from here under her Helios second label, and know she has added a single vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon to her main lineup, and it is a stunner! Corison Winery has sourced Sunbasket Vineyard, which was originally planted on the alluvial and gravelly soils in St.
Corison has taken all the Sunbasket fruit after Shafer stopped using it and has been converting it to more sustainable farming methods, making it much more organic and allowing the vines natural energies to shine through, which shows it this ripe and dynamic Sunbasket Cab. Everything flows nicely together and the sweet tannin holds it all in fine balance, while a bigger framed Cab, it is graceful and lively with a sensual textural and fantastic length with heaviness.
What a wine, and what a year, bravo Cathy for your hall of frame career and this great new wine to celebrate with. Theresa and cellar master Markus Lunden have formed a strong bond and vision for this winery and I highly recommend exploring the latest releases, especially everything from through , which is looking pretty awesome, and of course that older wines if you find them, just know these are not flashy wines, they are wines that require attention and have a certain raw sex appeal and earthy charm.
Time and air fill this wine out further and it becomes much less serve and less austere, but no less dry and taught, this is serious stuff and is best enjoyed with matching cuisine, I recommend Toro and or fresh Sashimi which will also enjoy the secondary characteristics that are just now starting to come out in this fine Berg Roseneck Trocken.
Theresa, who runs Weingut Georg Breuer, uses careful selection, almost exclusively without botrytis and employs indigenous fermentation s , natural or started with pied de cuve from the vineyard with her fermentation and elevage being completed in large used barrels for the top wines like this one, she focuses primarily in the vineyards and she is very basic in the cellar, allowing the individual sites and terroir to express itself, as this Berg Roseneck does with distinction. The Desire Lines Wine Co.
