2013 Founders’ Reserve

2013 Founders’ Reserve
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“The Founders’ Reserve provides our loyal customers with a peek behind the curtain at Seavey. Each year, we have special wine lots that, because of their small size, are known only to us in house. The opportunity to honor Bill and Mary was the impetus to make the extra efforts to capture this very limited and unique wine, and we are proud to continue to honor them with this 99-point stunner!” – Jim Duane, Winemaker
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Vineyard Notes
A handcrafted estate reserve wine, the 2013 Founders’ Reserve was sourced from five of the oldest Cabernet blocks on the estate. The majority of the wine comes from Block 10, which is situated on a gentle south-facing slope. The other components come from Block 3’s clay-rich plateau and the steeply terraced blocks where our oldest Cabernet vines are situated (their planting dates to 1983).
Production Notes
This 75-case lot has been highly distinctive from the beginning, showing extraordinary layers of flavor, deep, complex concentration, and majestic textural elegance. A profoundly rewarding wine, we held the 2013 Reserve back for extra cellar aging before its release in May 2017. Its future, however, will be an intrepid one, arcing over at least four decades.
- Appellation
- Napa Valley
- Blend
- 98.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 1.5% Petit Verdot
- Production
- 75 Cases
- Barrels
- 100% French Oak (60% new)
- Cellaring
- 2023 - 2063
- Alcohol %
- 14.8
- Winemaking Team
- Jim Duane & Philippe Melka