7 results for "2009 Frog's Leap Sauvignon Blanc Napa Valley" between $10.00 and $50.00

- One of the best known "international" varieties originally cultivated in France and considered the parent of, with Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon. Sauvignon's wonderfully distinctive aromatics generate some of wine's most colorful descriptors, among them "cat pee," herbaceous, grassy, citrusy the world over. In France, the apex of Sauvignon Blanc production is the Loire Valley, in the appellations of Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, where the terroir expresses itself most beautifully through the...

"93 pts. A complex wine that balances fatness and freshness. It layers herbal scents with ripe fruit notes of melon, pineapple and cherimoya, cleaned up in the finish by pink grapefruit acidity. The flavors are saturated and sophisticated." - Wine & Spirits Magazine

Starting a winery in the Napa Valley meant that Fro g’s Leap would almost have to make a Cabernet Sauvignon at some point. It took us only one year to realize this very simple truth - Napa is perfectly suited to grow great Cabernet. The rocky, fast draining soils of the Rutherford Bench, the misty, late morning fog rolling in from the San Pablo Bay and that ever-present California sun. But what kind of Cabernet to make? There were the closed, tight fisted, cough-and-hack Cabs of the late 70’s or...

Description Winemaker Notes - Typically when speaking of Cabernet, and especially Cabernet from Rutherford, we speak of the black fruit flavors of blackberries, cassis, and black currants. With our 2009 release, however, we find a lot of our descriptors heading in the direction of red fruits - maybe even purple fruits - ripe plums, elderberries and ruby red cherries all with very supple tannins and lovely acidity. Vintage: 2009