Rivers-Marie Panek Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

"Our first ten vintages at Panek we worked with the same five blocks, one acre parcels of clones 4, 6, 7, 169 and 337.  These five front blocks at Panek were all planted in 2006 and have been cane pruned since their inception.  We always felt fortunate to have this much high-quality fruit to select from when finalizing the Panek blend every year.  In 2018, the Panek family offered us the whole ranch, turning over the three older vine, cordon trained blocks in the back of the property.  Not knowing quite what to expect, we vinified and barreled these separately.  These naturally lower yielding parcels produced wines of enormous concentration and color.  As we sat down to blend, we realized all of these wines were of single vineyard quality, some were even better than most of the blocks we had been working with the last ten years.  Eventually we singled out a small block of clone 191 as the most logical addition to the 2018 Panek blend.  This block added a tremendous amount of structur