Salt Vine wines is a small scale producer of Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon crafted by Mike Smith. The idea behind Salt Vine is to take advantage short term contracts to access incredible Cabernet Sauvignon fruit that isn’t available for multiple years at a time. While the vineyards vary from vintage to vintage, what is consistent is that Mike is crafting beautiful wines from the absolute best fruit available to us.
The wines started with the 2014 Cabernet vintage and we’ve been lucky to have Mike guide these wines since then.
The wines are aged in 80% new oak and all exude that classic Mike Smith texture
OFFER #1 – 2018 Salt Vine Cabernet - GIII Vineyard
Probably the best wine we’ve ever made. From GIII vineyard it is a wine packed densely with material with structure that will allow that material to age. It gives pleasure now with generous fruit and plush acid. If I had to use a hand symbol to describe this wine, it’d just be the hand motion for a bomb exploding. GIII is a huge vineyard but this one is one of the best, northern section of the vineyard that abuts the Caymus Estate property.
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Also reaching into the library to re-offer the 2016 2016 was a more classic vintage. Weather at the end of the season was moderate and the grapes enjoyed long hang times. The wine is a seamless expression of dark berries, cassis, cedar of cocoa. It has a lovely texture which for me is the signature of all Mike’s great wines.
*** please note - the wines will ship in March as we custom print our labels and they will not be ready until then ***
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