Wine Library Newsom Vineyard
2020 Cabernet Franc – Newsom Vineyard
100% Cabernet Franc
- Vintage2020
- TypeRed
- AppellationTexas High Plains AVA
- VineyardNewsom Vineyard
- DrinkDrink now to 2027
When to drink it
Drinking at its peak - decant recommendedDrink now to 2027
Last tasted April 2025, from bottles kept at 58 to 59°F and out of the light. A bottle stored warmer will be further along than this.
- ABV
- 14.5%
- TA
- 5.9 g/L
- pH
- 3.76
- RS
- 0.00 g/L
- Cases Made
- 385
Tasting Notes
Uber ripe red fruit - plum, raspberry, and rhubarb - with intense notes of rose and dragonfruit. The wine is pretty on the nose and the palate, feeling playful and coating on the tongue, with a satisfying juicy fruit quality whilst remaining completely dry. Medium-bodied and lingering.
Winemaking
Fermented in stainless steel tank for 12 days. Aged for 16 months in 13% new French oak barrels and 87% neutral French oak barrels. Aged on lees for 10 months.
Food Pairing
If you choose to pair with food, select a cream-based dish or sauce to compliment a lean meat like pork.
The Vineyard
Established in Yoakum County by the Newsom family, they now have about 150 acres of quality fruit growing in the flat, semi-arid conditions there. Neal Newsom, who grew up in Yoakum, came from a long line of cotton farmers. With cotton as a thirsty crop, requiring more water than Texas often has to give, he looked toward alternative crops and settled on growing high quality grapes from their dry, shallow, poor soils that cause the grapes to struggle. Soil: shallow, low-vigor sandy loam. Elevation: 3,700 ft.