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by Robert O’Maoilriain CSW
by Robert O’Maoilriain CSW
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94/100pts - Winemaker; Ty Cayton, 100% single vineyard, Caton Estate fruit. The Caton Vineyard is a “Mayacamas Range” District mountainside vineyard and is sustainable farmed. Wild yeast/native fermentation is used for all four varietals, fermented/vinified separately in small open top containers and pushed down by hand, 37% Cabernet, 29% Petite Sirah, 29% Syrah, 5%Merlot. 30-35% new oak, overall 85% French oak, 10% Hungarian oak and 5% American oak. 509 cases made, $75
verall- A blustering titan of a red wine, brute and tremendous, bulldozing and bullying as it throws its weight around on the palette. Its colossal breadth and savage structure take dominion over and even dwarf other Cabernets from the North Bay. Total expression and mouthfeel are Herculean, direct, round and boorish. Powerful skin tannins and beastly muscle dictate a potential cellar ageablity rather than the simple fruit components expression of my wines this massive. The acids are mild and subjugated somewhat though still mouthwatering and otherwise made up for in tannin structure.
This Vineyard has a way of making the visitor feel small among the various and numerous, steep hillsides much the way this wine makes one’s palette feel undersized. The famous Monte Rosso Vineyard borders one side of the vineyard, the well regarded Rancho Salin Vineyard borders both while Richard Arrowwoods new Estate and Winery Amapola Creek creates the other border. The wine is grown in an excellent class of company. The wine is large but trim and cut. This vineyard shows it’s special talent of combining both the terroir (sense of place) flavors of Mountainside fruit with the savage power of the valley floor.
A full bodied wine with crowd pleasing appeal, layered fruit preserves and unique powdered baking spices. Tannins, acid and alcohol are all in balance while having a large, soft mouthfeel. A uniquely characterful wine that displays the full personality of the Caton Estate Vineyard. It is as seamless and well integrated as the finest Chateauneuf-du-Pape in a ripe year. A wine that
This Vineyard has a way of making the visitor feel small among the various and numerous, steep hillsides much the way this wine makes one’s palette feel undersized. The famous Monte Rosso Vineyard borders one side of the vineyard, the well regarded Rancho Salin Vineyard borders both while Richard Arrowwoods new Estate and Winery Amapola Creek creates the other border. The wine is grown in an excellent class of company. The wine is large but trim and cut. This vineyard shows it’s special talent of combining both the terroir (sense of place) flavors of Mountainside fruit with the savage power of the valley floor.
A full bodied wine with crowd pleasing appeal, layered fruit preserves and unique powdered baking spices. Tannins, acid and alcohol are all in balance while having a large, soft mouthfeel. A uniquely characterful wine that displays the full personality of the Caton Estate Vineyard. It is as seamless and well integrated as the finest Chateauneuf-du-Pape in a ripe year. A wine that
Winery Phone number (707) 833-0526
Tasting Room- 8910 Sonoma hwy , Kenwood CA
Tasting Room- 8910 Sonoma hwy , Kenwood CA
