Wine releases are a great deal of fun! After a year of  growing grapes, obsessive attention to detail during harvest, crush, and fermentation, several years of barrel aging, declassifying lots, blending, and finally bottling everything comes to fruition when a new wine is released and all of the hard work is ready for everyone to enjoy. Our mentality before a release is akin to that of a kid in a candy store.  The anticipation, excitement, and  pride that go into every wine release is something that we all share in as a team. While each wine seems to become  our new favorite, our annual release of  Cabernet Sauvignon is what really gets us excited! Having two incredibly talented, passionate, and dedicated individuals working on the wines has been a pleasure to say the least. While Kirk Venge joined us last year as winemaker, he actually has a hand in the 2006 and 2007 vintages. All of the wines from the 2006 vintage were blended and bottled by Kirk.  The 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon has a final blend of  94% Cabernet Sauvignon and 6% Cabernet Franc and  was bottled unfined and unfiltered early this year after 25 months in 90% new French oak.  The wines seem to have a certain richness to them not previously found in Frazier Cabernet. The wines are still in need of a nice decanting before they are to be enjoyed, but after an hour in the decanter they explode with dark fruit and a hint of sweet tannin. Production in 2006 was down while barrel selection was limited. The end result is a mere 700 cases of Cabernet produced.

We are quite fond of this wine and have sampled it many times throughout the year.  Most recently we enjoyed this wine with braised lamb shanks, a phenomenal pairing! Other times, a dry aged rib eye steak paired with the wine made for a great pairing. We do have one final wine release for 2009; an 8 barrel bottling (200 cases) of Memento which will be released in early December.  We recently began previewing the '06 Memento in the tasting room to get some customer feedback and it has been a huge hit!   Don't worry, we are saving the bulk of it for our wine club and mailing list members..you won't want to miss out!

Cheers!!