pressed flesh

We are featuring our first Napa Valley wine, and our first Cabernet Franc. Pressed Flesh is a 2021 Cabernet Franc which hails primarily from Coombsville, east of the City of Napa in an area that tends to have nice alluvial soils and a more moderated temperature than other appellations  up valley. Cabernet Franc can be more distinctive, more expressive of its terroir, than many other varieties. There are two good examples of this in France - the Cabernet Franc grown in the Loire Valley, in appellations like Chinon, makes a light, quaffable, pleasant red fruited wine. On the other hand, in Bordeaux, where it is most frequently seen planted in St. Emilion and surrounding communes, the wine is much richer, denser, with a higher tannin load and a telltale tobacco note, with a much blacker fruit profile.