{"title":"Pulido Walker Cabernet","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis first-growth PulidoWalker Mt. Veeder Estate Vineyard is stunningly positioned in steep mountain terrain above the fog line at the southern end of the Mt. Veeder appellation, commanding views of the Napa Valley from within the Mayacamas range. The greatest 15 acres were methodically planted to 75 percent Cabernet Sauvignon and 25 percent Chardonnay nearly a decade after obtaining these outstanding 115 acres and collecting data on their microclimates and soils.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePulidoWalker is the climax of a long and arduous trip into the unknown. We chose two extraordinary vineyard sites under the watchful eye of our winemaker, Thomas Rivers Brown, where the natural alchemy of geography, soil, climate, and clone combine to produce a 100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon greater than the sum of its parts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pulido-walker-2016-panek-vineyard-napa-valley-cabernet-sauvignon","title":"Pulido-Walker 2016 Panek Vineyard Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e97 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate\u003c\/strong\u003e - Coming from plantings at Panek Vineyard in St. Helena, mostly based around clone 6 Cabernet Sauvignon, 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Panek Vineyard has a vibrant deep garnet-purple color and prances out of the glass with vivacious black cherries, wild blueberries and blackcurrants scents plus suggestions of violets, bay leaves, tilled earth and black tea. Medium to full bodied, the palate is tightly knit with firm, grainy tannins and a lively line cutting through the stacked, lively fruit, finishing long with amazing freshness. (LPB)  (7\/2019)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e96 points Jeb Dunnuck\u003c\/strong\u003e - The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Panek Vineyard comes from a site in St. Helena and offers a darker, savory style as well as plenty of blue fruits, violets, tobacco, and damp earth. With bright acidity, a silky, elegant texture, and terrific purity, it’s a more vibrant, juicier, fresher wine than the Melanson Vineyard. Give bottle 2-4 years and drink over the following two decades. 96+ (1\/2019)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e94 points Vinous\u003c\/strong\u003e - The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Panek Vineyard is gorgeous. Bright red cherry, sweet tobacco, mint and rose petal notes give the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Panek Vineyard a level of brilliance that sets it apart from most other Cabernets being made off this site. Plush, elegant and sensual to its core, the 2016 is a winner from Pulido-Walker and winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown. (AG)  (12\/2018)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2016 growing season benefited tremendously from the return of significant winter rainfall across the Napa Valley. Whereas the challenging 2015 season produced smaller yields of high-quality fruit, 2016 was more in keeping with the textbook vintages of 2012 and 2014, with a longer and milder growing season. As a result, the 2016 Pulido~Walker Panek Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon tells a story all about site and varietal. With less stress on the vines thanks to rain, extended hang time, and no weather drama, the wine speaks unmistakably of this particular place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe harvest from five different blocks in this vineyard. In past years, there have been standout lots of wine associated with individual blocks and clones, but 2016 has changed all that. The combination of vine maturity and new farming efforts brought all five into the limelight in 2016. While the final clonal blend remains the same this vintage, clones 4 and 337 will play their own starring roles in coming vintages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinemaking \u0026amp; Tasting Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 2016 Panek Vineyard Cabernet shows a good mix of acidity and tannins, a welcome counterpoint to the generous fruit profile we’ve come to expect from this valley floor locale. While the previous vintage is highly structured, with more prominent tannins than we usually get from this site, the 2016 is a beautiful balance of structure and luscious fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere is a more deeply satisfying mineral completeness to the 2016 Panek Vineyard Cabernet than we’ve seen previously—a new milestone for wine from this site that will prove to be its hallmark as the vines continue to mature. The wine is darker, with more black-fruit qualities balancing the caramelized sugar aspects of red fruit. The relationship of the two is as ideal as we’ve anticipated it could be, marrying round tannins and excellent acidity. The 2016 Pulido~Walker Panek Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is a wine destined to enchant for decades to come.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"cmore2\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"false\" hidden=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe harvest from five different blocks in this vineyard. In past years, there have been standout lots of wine associated with individual blocks and clones, but 2016 has changed all that. The combination of vine maturity and new farming efforts brought all five into the limelight in 2016. While the final clonal blend remains the same this vintage, clones 4 and 337 will play their own starring roles in coming vintages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinemaking \u0026amp; Tasting Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 2016 Panek Vineyard Cabernet shows a good mix of acidity and tannins, a welcome counterpoint to the generous fruit profile we’ve come to expect from this valley floor locale. While the previous vintage is highly structured, with more prominent tannins than we usually get from this site, the 2016 is a beautiful balance of structure and luscious fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"singletitle\"\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"clearfix\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 13px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-align: left; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"clearfix\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c2a06; font-family: \u0026amp;quot; open sans\u0026amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"post\" id=\"post-1835\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"entry winetxt pv\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"cmore\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"false\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"cmore2\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"false\" hidden=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough yield declined by about a third, the shatter we saw during spring bloom paved the way for a big bump in quality and flavor concentration as the remaining fruit matured. “A naturally small crop has a huge effect on quality,” winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown explains. “We can’t duplicate that by dropping fruit.” Berries in the Melanson Vineyard hung longer and in looser clusters for the remainder of the 2015 season, ultimately making the Pulido~Walker Cabernet Sauvignon from this site a better wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinemaking \u0026amp; Tasting Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe concentration of this vintage means the wine comes across as more fruit driven than in past years, although the savory notes and dried-herb quality we associate particularly with Clone 7 are still readily apparent. The wine is a pure expression of black fruits, minus the tsunami of tannin one might expect from a vintage this inky dark. The finish is seemingly endless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WinePlus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":16039489568862,"sku":"CA147","price":224.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0242\/0683\/products\/mywineplus.com-Pulido-Walker-2016-Panek-Vineyard-Napa-Valley-Cabernet-Sauvignon.png?v=1634878054"},{"product_id":"pulido-walker-2017-panek-vineyard-napa-valley-cabernet-sauvignon","title":"Pulido-Walker 2017 Panek Vineyard Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e95 points – Jeb Dunnuck\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppellation: St. Helena, Napa Valley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVarietal: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClones: 6, 7, 169, and 337\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAging: 20 months in 100% French oak (80% new barrels)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarrel Coopers: Darnajou, Ermitage, and Taransaud\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlcohol: 14.7% by vol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2017 in the Napa Valley was a year none here will soon forget. Intensive winter rains brought widespread flooding that signaled, in no uncertain terms, the end of Northern California’s drought. Summer began with a pair of heat spikes in June and culminated in a brutal Labor Day heat wave, during which daytime temperatures soared as high as 120 degrees. But the most dramatic events of 2017 began overnight on October 8, quickly raging into a complex of wildfires that burned thousands of acres and hundreds of homes, including the Pulido-Walker Estate residence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs devastating as these fires were, they had no impact on the 2017 Pulido-Walker Cabernet Sauvignon. Harvest and crush were completed before the blaze ignited, and we are thankful that our production and storage facilities were untouched. It was the extreme September heat that posed a greater challenge, with fruit still on the vine. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe growing season in the Panek Vineyard was uneventful, with the fruit setting up beautifully. As the September heat wave set in, it was crucial to water the vines deeply and let the moister canopy protect the clusters. The afternoon shade at this site provided further protection when temperatures soared. Soon after the heat spell broke, brix began dropping to normal levels. We let the fruit hang to further ripen, and picked a week later than normal. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinemaking \u0026amp; Tasting Notes \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYield was smaller than average in 2017 throughout the Valley, and the Panek Vineyard was no exception. While quantity was down, quality of all five clones planted to this site continues to impress. We saw superb maturation across the board, with clone 337 coming into its own and clone 6 putting on its best showing ever. The 2017 Pulido-Walker Panek Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is blended from the three clones we have traditionally used, along with clone 337, to bring you a wine of excellent quality from a vineyard where quality has become consistently high.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis vintage is balanced and light on its feet, with fresh fruit characteristics. Somewhat more red fruited than is typical even for this site, the wine is a refreshing one to drink now. We have seen fleshier vintages certainly, and much as we anticipate the ways those wines will develop with age, we greatly appreciate the 2017 Panek Cabernet Sauvignon for giving us something delicious to uncork right away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"post\" id=\"post-1835\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"entry winetxt pv\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"cmore\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"false\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"cmore2\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"false\" hidden=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough yield declined by about a third, the shatter we saw during spring bloom paved the way for a big bump in quality and flavor concentration as the remaining fruit matured. “A naturally small crop has a huge effect on quality,” winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown explains. “We can’t duplicate that by dropping fruit.” Berries in the Melanson Vineyard hung longer and in looser clusters for the remainder of the 2015 season, ultimately making the Pulido~Walker Cabernet Sauvignon from this site a better wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinemaking \u0026amp; Tasting Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe concentration of this vintage means the wine comes across as more fruit driven than in past years, although the savory notes and dried-herb quality we associate particularly with Clone 7 are still readily apparent. The wine is a pure expression of black fruits, minus the tsunami of tannin one might expect from a vintage this inky dark. The finish is seemingly endless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WinePlus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31338653319262,"sku":"CA014","price":224.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0242\/0683\/products\/mywineplus.com-Pulido-Walker-2017-Panek-Vineyard-Napa-Valley-Cabernet-Sauvignon.png?v=1635985426"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.mywineplus.com\/collections\/pulido-walker-cabernet\/price_over-100.oembed","provider":"MyWinePlus.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}