2022 Seven Apart Expedition™
Cabernet Sauvignon
For those just beginning their expedition, we recommend starting at the base of the mountain and experiencing this Cabernet Sauvignon blended with grapes from our Base Camp Vineyard. This wine is intended to guide you throughout your entire journey, since after all, you have to work your way to the Summit.
The Journey
Harvested
September 17, 2022 through October 4, 2022
Aged In oak
18 months
Bottled
April 26, 2024
Released
September 2024
94% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3 % Cabernet Franc, 3% Petit Verdot, and 74% New French Oak.
Base Camp Vineyard and Stags Ridge Vineyard
30 Barrels Produced
Tasting Notes
Winemaker Andy Erickson
The 2022 Seven Apart Expedition once again delivers great Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon characteristics. Visually, it has a rich, deep red color with a violet hue on the brim of the glass. The wine has intense aromas of ripe black cherries, summer strawberries, milk chocolate, fresh plum skin, hints of toasted fennel seed, and graphite. On the palate, the wine greets you with soft, lush tannins combined with well-balanced acidity. The midpalate offers opulent body with soft, firm tannins that render a generous, lasting finish with flavors of well-integrated oak, cocoa nib, vanilla, black licorice, bay leaf, and black currant.
The grapes are hand harvested at night to ensure that the grapes come in cold in order to minimize oxidation. The grapes are slowly fermented at cooler temperatures to help preserve aromas. Once the initial fermentation is complete, the wine is transferred to French oak barrels where Malolactic fermentation takes place to soften and stabilize the wines. The wine is then racked off its lees and aged for 18 months in barrels before bottling.
Cellaring
Approachable upon releases. Cellaring 5-8 years will reward with a slightly developed bottle bouquet. Can age 25+ years.
Once you are ready to savor the wine, we highly suggest decanting.
Decant young wines for 1 hour and add 1 hour of decanting for every 10 years of age. You can speed decanting wine by pouring the wine once or twice between two decanters (or between the decanter and the wine bottle with a funnel). If you don’t have a decanter, swirl your wine in the glass. The swirling increases the surface area of wine to oxygen and aerates it just as decanting would.
