Freemark Abbey - Cabernet Bosche Cabernet Sauvignon 2015 (750ml)
Price: $179.99
| Producer | Freemark Abbey |
| Country | United States |
| Region | California |
| Subregion | Napa Valley |
| Varietal | Cabernet Sauvignon |
| Vintage | 2015 |
| Sku | 3445 |
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Long acknowledged as one of California’s premier sites for Cabernet Sauvignon, the Bosché family’s eponymous vineyard in Rutherford has a history like no other.
Freemark Abbey’s bottling of Cabernet Bosché has been an established Napa Valley wine for many vintages. It was, in fact, one of the valley’s first vineyard-designated wines.
Tucked away behind a row of creek-fed trees west of Highway 29, Bosché Vineyard has, as of 2020, been connected to Freemark Abbey for 50 years. The first Cabernet Bosché came out of the 1970 harvest. Since then, it’s been what in France would be called a monopole, or a vineyard entirely under the control of a single winery.
San Francisco attorney John Bosché planted the Rutherford vineyard in the mid-1960s. By the time Ted Edwards arrived in St. Helena in 1980, the vineyard’s unique Cabernet and Merlot fruit had already been harvested ten times for Freemark Abbey. Almost four decades later, Bosché Vineyard is going stronger than ever, both as a signature new release each year and as a coveted part of the Freemark Abbey wine library.
Freemark Abbey Description
100% Bosche Vineyard, a small 22-acre vineyard located west of Hwy. 29, on the famed Rutherford Bench, the Bosché Vineyard has very deep gravelly soils. A seasonal creek crosses the vineyard which indicates the water table to be high in the spring, providing water and nutrients for new shoot growth. As veraison approaches the water table drops, stressing the wines and intensifying the dark velvety fruit flavors. This is a natural area to grow Bordeaux varietals with dry farming or minimal drip irrigation.
Wine Advocate: 97 Points
Blended of 92% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8% Merlot, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Bosche Vineyard has a deep garnet-purple color and is scented of earthy nuances of truffles, dusty soil and underbrush with a core of crème de cassis, black cherry compote and blueberry pie plus hints of camphor and scorched earth. Full, concentrated, rich and densely packed with loads of earth and black fruit layers, it has a firm, ripe, grainy frame and oodles of freshness, finishing long.
