Event

Open Bottle - Red Schooner Voyage 4!!

Thursday, June 08, 2017

Time: 04:00pm - 08:00pm

Type: Wine Tasting

Location: The Wine Cabinet

Event Free

Every Thursday from 4:00 until 8:00 pm we open a special bottle of wine and offer to you at a highly discounted price.
The wines are typically 90 points or better and are discounted 20-40%. Sometimes even more! when we can get special pricing from our vendors , we pass the savings along to you!!
Come in on Thursday and sample. If you can't make it, call us and we can put some aside for you!! 
(All purchases must be accompanied by a credit card.)


 

 

CAYMUS Family of Wines
 RED SCHOONER
VOYAGE 
4
A RED WINE OF THE WORLD

 

"A dense, dark red, this wine opens up with the scent of ripe plums and cherries, layered with hints of unsweetened baking chocolate. On the palate, it is powerful, concentrated, supple and persistent, with generous flavors of French oak that support but don’t dominate. The wine carries through to a complete finish, balanced and integrated with soft tannins that imbue it with both structure and balance."

 Joseph Wagner, Owner and Winemaker Wagner Family Wines.

This wine is not submitted to the reviewers and wine critics as it's an anomaly on how its grown in Argentina and fermented in Napa and can't be classified. But if your a Caymus, Belle Glos or Emmolo fan you know the Wagner family's style and this bottling will drink every bit up to your expectations. It also has no vintage or AVA designation due to the complications of being grown in South Anerica and fermented and bottled in North America - The Red Tape wasn't worth the trouble!

Elsewhere at $59.99

Our Regular price $49.99

Special Private Sale for Existing 
Wine Cabinet Patrons Only!

Tonight's Price is so low we were asked not to publish it.
 Call us at  703-668-9463 (WINE)
(All purchases must be accompanied by a credit card.)


Our Thoughts.....

Inky red in the glass, this wine opens up with the scent of dark plums and cherries, layered with hints of dark dark chocolate. On the palate, it is powerful, very concentrated, supple and persistent, with generous
flavors of French oak that support but don’t dominate the fruit. The wine carries through to a complete finish, balanced and integrated with soft tannins that imbue it with both structure and balance.

 

Their Story, their Words......
For more than 40 years we have been making dark, rich red wine from Napa Valley. We are also, perhaps not surprisingly, avid consumers of diverse wines from around the globe. We still love to learn about California with its array of soils and extreme maritime-influenced climate, but we have also found that venturing far afield helps us see what is close by in unexpected ways. And for us, this perspective inspired us to experiment in a way we wouldn’t have imagined even 10 or 15 years ago. It all started with appreciating good Malbec. Years ago, we considered whether we could make such a wine here in Napa Valley, but we had no luck making quality Malbec from vineyards we had planted either in the area of Rutherford or the elevated mountain domain of Atlas Peak. Our quest began in the winter of 2009/2010 when we headed for the Andes

Mountains, a place renowned for intense sunlight and high altitude viticulture. Our goal: to ship grapes in a way that mirrored how table grapes are shipped around the world – protecting them through delicate care and chilling. After venturing to the Andes Mountains and purchasing top quality grapes, our experiment would finally be realized. “Reverse season” winemaking allowed use of our well-equipped winery to make this wine. In fact, for 39 years, our winemaking equipment and tanks just gathered dust for the 10 months between the harvest seasons.
Over time, another idea started to take shape. Could we create a wine here at Caymus using fruit from another part of the world? Was there a lesson for us in the now commonplace ability to find high-quality fruit at the local grocery store (including grapes), sourced from thousands of miles away? There are tons of fruit being shipped on ocean freighters every day, and so we considered this project to be not so crazy after all. RED SCHOONER is a “Red Wine of the World,” an experiment of more than five years in the making. This third bottling is made from Mendoza Malbec grapes yet produced into wine and barrel aged at our home location of Caymus Vineyards right in the center of the Napa Valley.

Our quest began in the winter of 2009/2010 when we headed for the Andes Mountains, a place renowned for intense sunlight and high altitude viticulture. Our goal: to ship grapes in a way that mirrored how table grapes are shipped around the world – protecting them through delicate care and chilling. After venturing to the Andes Mountains and purchasing top quality grapes, our experiment would finally be realized. “Reverse season” winemaking allowed use of our well-equipped winery to make this wine. In fact, for 39 years, our winemaking equipment and tanks just gathered dust for the 10 months between the harvest seasons.
Upon receiving the fruit, we employed a slow and delicate fermentation process to extract deep color and rich tannins, and then aged the wine for 15 months in French oak barrels (50% new), with bottling taking place in September of 2013. We have been very excited about Red Schooner for five years and now with an overwhelming welcome to Voyages 1 and 2, Voyage 3 is ready for release. The Red Schooner label and name evoke the challenge – along with the thrill – of voyage and discovery. Since our experiment falls outside the normal rules and we think our “chill-and-ship” may even be a first in the world of fine wine making, we were unable to use standard labeling practices. You won’t find a vintage date, varietal or grape origin on our label. Instead Red Schooner is a “Red Wine of the World,” and it will be known by the voyage from which it was produced.

 

The Wagner Family

In 1971 Charles F. (Charlie) Wagner and his wife Lorna Belle Glos Wagner asked their son Charles J. (Chuck) Wagner, who had just graduated from high school, if he would be interested in joining them in starting up a winery. If Chuck declined the offer, Charlie and Lorna were planning to sell out of their ranch in Napa Valley and move to Australia. Chuck accepted his parents’ offer to launch the winery, Caymus Vineyards.

 The Wagners produced their first vintage in 1972, consisting of 240 cases of Cabernet Sauvignon. Since then, Caymus has focused their efforts in the production of quality Cabernet Sauvignon. Today’s production is 65,000 cases.

 Caymus Vineyards remains 100% family-owned by the Wagners. Charlie, Lorna Belle, and Chuck worked together as a remarkable team for over 30 years building Caymus Cabernet. Today, Chuck, his two sons, Charlie and Joe, and one daughter, Jenny, have joined the family team. Farming grapes remain the priority with the family farming about 350 acres of choice Napa Valley land.

 The Wagners took the name Caymus from the Mexican land grant known as Rancho Caymus, given to George Yount in 1836, which encompassed what eventually became the town of Rutherford and much of the surrounding area.

 For five generations, my family has lived and loved the Napa Valley. Our grandfather settled here in the 1800s and from that moment forward, we've grown to understand there is simply no substitute for an intimate knowledge of the land that only comes by "living" in the vineyard. Working the land with our own hands has given us insights into California winemaking that can't be found in any book or corporate farm manual.

 Chuck Wagner continues to direct the world-reknown Cabernet program at Caymus Vineyards in Napa Valley; Charlie is making exquisite Chardonnay at Mer Soleil in the Santa Lucia Highlands of Monterey County; Joseph is making fine Pinot Noir under the Belle Glos label in the coastal areas of California; Jenny is learning the ropes here at Caymus and ah yes, our longtime winemaker for Conundrum, Jon Bolta, continues his craft of making that puzzling, white wine blend.