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Hello Mountain Wine Club!
For your February 2025 MWC shipment, we’re sending wine from two top-tier Napa appellations: 2019 Mt. Brave Mt. Veeder Malbec & 2021 Restricted Diamond Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon.
Made exclusively for the Mountain Wine Club, Restricted is an ever-evolving collection that allows the Chris Carpenter and Gianna Ghilarducci to hand select vineyards, blocks, and rows according to vintage, quality, and new inspiration. Each bottle is an intimate expression of some of the most isolated and iconic soils from the Napa Valley and beyond. The Cabernet Sauvignon grapes for these wines come from outstanding blocks on our estate vineyards. Established in 2001, the Diamond Mountain District appellation sits above the town of Calistoga on the eastern slopes of the Mayacamas Mountains. The Restricted Cabernet Sauvignon is sourced from the Wallis and Rhyolyte Vineyards. Cool daytime temperatures, rocky soil and sharply inclined vineyard terraces combine to create ideal growing conditions.
Mt. Brave Vineyard sits high atop Mt. Veeder at 1,400 to 1,800 feet. This mountain has been planted with winegrapes since the early 1860s but vineyard acreage is limited by thick forests and craggy peaks. High-elevation winegrowing requires a painstaking, labor-intensive approach and Mt. Brave’s thin, rocky soils and steep slopes make water retention a challenge and erosion a threat. The vines benefit from the struggle and produce intense flavors. We achieved organic certification at this site in 2023, after a five-year transition, and are now approaching regenerative accreditation. Not only has the fruit reached a new level of excellence, but the vines are also more resilient without artificial treatments. Our team is very proud to farm with methods that contribute to a better global climate, healthier land, and even more compelling wines. The 2019 Mt. Brave Mt. Veeder Malbec opens with notes of pepper, blueberry and cassis while the mouthfeel is silky with bright acidity and soft tannins that frame a beautiful finish.
We hope you enjoy these two wines to the fullest.
Peace,
Winemaker Chris Carpenter
“Blackberry with grapey highlights. The purity of fruit is so impressive. Almost a sense of chalkiness. Full and flavorful. A great mountain Malbec”
96 Points —James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com, March 2022
“2021 will be remembered in Napa as a gentle growing season that resulted in vivid fruit – both intense and fresh. The Diamond Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon is poised and powerful with lashings of blackberry laced with Asian spice, mint, minerals, and graphite.”
Chris Carpenter, Winemaker
