Behrens
Family is a boutique winery in the truest sense. Les
Behrens (a former grave digger, turned wood worker, turned construction
worker, turned restaurant owner, turned vintner) and his wife, Lisa Drinkward (former chef and
restaurant owner and partner in Drinkward Peschon), have made wine under the Behrens & Hitchcock label since
1993 and now under the Behrens Family
Winery label producing very small lots of wine at its winery perched high
on top of Spring Mountain. Sourcing from interesting and esteemed vineyards
around the Napa Valley, each wine is a low tech labor of love: crushed into
one-ton T-bins, punched down by hand, gently transferred to barrel, and bottled
unfined and unfiltered. One only has to
look at Les and Lisa's hands during harvest to know their wines are truly
"hand-crafted" and made with inspiration, innovation, and love. All of their wines are so richly engrained
with passion and resourcefulness, so much so you can taste in the glass their
fervor for the vineyards, their love and appreciation for the people who help
tend to the vines, and their ingenuity in the creation of these inspired and
enchanted wines.
Being
sourced from a very prestigious west-side vineyard adjacent to the St. Helena
cemetery, this is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon and aged in 100% new French oak. Lively, expressive, and chock full of aromas
of black currant, cassis, rose petals and white pepper. Dark and concentrated with complex layers of
sassafras and black stone fruits, this powerful wine is exquisitely balanced
with lush yet persistent tannins and a long, creamy, mocha finish. A GORGEOUS hedonistic wine! 203 cases produced.
