2020 Cabernet Franc – Newsom Vineyard

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.

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.

If you choose to pair with food, select a cream-based dish or sauce to compliment a lean meat like pork.

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.