2023 Volker Eisele "See Clone" Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

Bid on this bottle of 2023 Volker Eisele “See Clone” Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, a single-clone Cabernet from one of Napa Valley’s hidden gems, the Volker Eisele Family Estate in the remote, high-elevation Chiles Valley District. The estate was founded in 1974 by the late Volker Eisele, a pioneer of organic farming and Napa agricultural preservation, and it farms organically around a historic 150-year-old redwood winery. The estate grows seven distinct Cabernet clones, and this bottling isolates the See clone to showcase its distinctive character. From the cool, long, late-ripening 2023 vintage, which produced elegant, balanced and age-worthy wines, expect black cherry, blackberry and cassis layered with violet, cedar, cocoa, dried herbs and sweet barrel spice, with a polished, medium- to full-bodied palate, fine tannins, bright acidity and a long, refined finish. A rare, small-production estate Cabernet for collectors of mountain Napa Valley wines.