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2008 Ahnfeldt Napa Valley Merlot
The 2008 Ahnfeldt Merlot is big and bold, and carries on the tradition of our Merlot from our Hardman Vineyard.
- A blend of Merlot from our Hardman Vineyard, and Merlot from a Yountville Vineyard
- 4% Cabernet Sauvignon from our Kreuse Canyon Hillside Vineyard
- Harvested in September 2008
- Aged in 100% French Oak, 50% new
- Barrel aged for 31 months
Winemakers Description
Handcrafted medium bodied merlot with intense flavors, and complexity, rich in ripe fruit, characteristic of the Hardman Vineyard with its deep clay soil. Our merlot has nice tannins, is smooth, with a lasting finish. |
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2003 Merlot
Tasting Notes
Black cherry, milk chocolate and toasty oak lead the way, followed by raspberry. The entry is smooth, round and full. Silky tannins lead to a long, velvety finish. While the wine is intense and concentrated, it is superbly balanced and shows all of the characteristics one expects from a great Napa Valley Merlot. |
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2004 Merlot
Tasting Notes The seamless entry is followed by bursting flavors of black currant, vanilla, cocoa powder, cinnamon stick, lavender, with a slight mint note. The wine has excellent texture and superb balance throughout its evolution, which leads to a smooth long finish. Great fruit concentrations with loads of velvety tannins. |
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2005 Merlot
Our 2005 Merlot is a blend of 89% Merlot and 11% Cabernet Sauvignon grapes. All of the grapes are from our vineyards.
The Merlot grapes are from our 5.5 acre Hardman Vineyard near Silverado County Club, which we developed and planted in 1997. The Cabernet grapes are from our 3.5 acre Kreuse Canyon Hillside Vineyard planted in 1997 in southeast Napa, and from our Monticello Vineyard planted in 1999.
Tasting Notes
It’s not always easy to explain why some vineyards are great for certain varieties, but the Ahnfeldt Hardman vineyard is certainly an amazing Merlot vineyard year after year. The 2005 vintage is a wonderful example of the power potential of this vineyard. Dark ruby red color, saturated rim, cherry, black cherry, toasty oak with notes of cassis, vanilla and raspberry. The entry is full, round, and intense with loads of fruit and a great mid-palate. The mouth coating tannins and moderate acidity create a lingering finish. |
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2007 Ahnfeldt Merlot
The 2007 Ahnfeldt Merlot carries on our tradition of big bold Merlots. The Merlot grapes are from our deep clay soil Hardman vineyard which we planted in 1998.
- 93% Merlot
- 5% Cabernet Sauvignon from our Monticello vineyard
- 2% Cabernet Franc from our Monticello vineyard
- Picked September 2007
- Fermented in stainless steel tanks
- Aged in 100% French oak, 50% new for 22 months.
Winemakers Description:
This wine has deep dark color, is medium to full bodied, with aromas of rich berry fruit and toasty oak. This is a big, more cabernet like, Merlot with smooth fine tannins and a long finish
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2008 Ahnfeldt Reserve Merlot, Napa Valley
This big 100% merlot is from our Hardman Vineyard in mid-Napa Valley. We planted the vineyard almost fifteen years ago and its unique deep clay soil produces bold dynamic merlot.
- 100% Merlot from our Hardman Vineyard
- Picked in September 2008
- Crushed and fermented in stainless steel tanks
- Aged in100% French Oak, 50% new
- Barrel aged for 31 months
- 154 Cases produced
Winemakers Description:
Big, bold, dynamic merlot, with aromas of fruit, and subtle nuances of oak. Balanced, with layers of flavors, soft tannins with a long finish.
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2008 Ahnfeldt Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Classic Blend
Our 2008 Ahnfeldt Cabernet Sauvignon is a classic Napa Valley blended cabernet.
- 88% Cabernet from our Monticello and Kreuse Canyon Vineyards, with a small amount from Diamond Mountain
- 9% Cabernet Franc
- 2% Merlot
- 1% Petit Verdot
The grapes were hand picked in October 2008:
- Crushed and fermented in stainless steel tanks
- Aged in 100% French Oak, 50% new
- Barrel aged for 30 months
Winemakers Description
With rich aromas of fruit, the wine is medium bodied, balanced, smooth with elegant tannins, hints of toasty oak, with a long finish. |
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2004 Cabernet Sauvignon
Tasting Notes With flavors of cherry, black cherry, cedar, rose water, subtle earthiness and cassis, the entry is round with a medium to full body. The evolution is smooth with mouth filling tannins and excellent balance. This well structured wine has a medium to long finish with reverberating flavors. This wonderful wine has loads of fruit, balance, and quality tannins which make it very approachable now, yet able to age. |
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2003 Cabernet Sauvignon
Tasting Notes
The 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon is dark, ruby-red in color, with aromas of cherry, red current, raspberry, dark chocolate, black pepper and anise. On the palate, the wine is velvety, smooth, viscous, and elegant, with lingering fruit and fine grain tannins on the finish. |
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2002 Cabernet Sauvignon
Tasting Notes
The 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon offers aromas of cherry, blackberry, milk chocolate, cloves, black olive, oak. The tannins are firm yet smooth on entry. Mouthfeel is round and balanced with moderate acidity. The wine finishes smooth and long with mouth-coating tannins. |
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2005 Cabernet Sauvignon
Our 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon is a blend of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Merlot, and 4% Cabernet Franc
The Cabernet Sauvignon grapes come from our Monticello Vineyard, and our Kreuse Canyon Hillside Vineyard. The Merlot grapes are from our 5.5 acre Hardman Vineyard near Silverado County Club. The Cabernet Franc comes from the six rows of vines at our Monticello Vineyard.
Tasting Notes
With dark ruby red colors, saturated to the rim, the aromas are dominated by bright black cherry, cola berry, and toasty oak. Other nuances include tobacco, earthiness, and rose water. The entry is big, lush, round, with medium to full body. The evolution is concentrated with impeccable balance and showing excellent middle palate. The finish is long with mouth coating tannins. |
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2007 Ahnfeldt Cabernet Sauvignon,
Black Label
This beautiful blended Cabernet recently won a Gold medal in America's largest wine competition, the 2011 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, which judged over 5000 wines. The amount produced was very small - 225 cases.
As a grower of grapes in Napa Valley for over 25 years, we know that all great wines start in the vineyards. The grapes in this wine all come from our vineyards which we planted and nurtured. The Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, and Cabernet Franc come from our Monticello Vineyard, in the foothills of eastern Napa Valley. The Merlot is from our Hardman Vineyards with its deep clay soil. The wine was aged in French Oak for 22 months.
- 79% Cabernet Sauvignon
- 14% Merlot
- 5% Cabernet Franc
- 2% Petit Verdot
&The grapes were hand picked in September and October 2007.
Winemakers Description
This wonderful wine has a bouquet of rich cherries, cassis, a hint of chocolate and berries. The entry is smooth with wonderful fruit flavors, a hint of toasty French Oak, and fine tannins. The mouth coating flavors are followed by a smooth long finish. |
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2008 Ahnfeldt Cabernet Sauvignon,
Classic Blend, White Label, Napa Valley
Our 2008 Ahnfeldt Cabernet Sauvignon is a classic Napa Valley blended cabernet.
- 88% Cabernet from our Monticello and Kreuse Canyon Vineyards, with a small amount from Diamond Mountain
- 9% Cabernet Franc
- 2% Merlot
- 1% Petit Verdot
The grapes were hand picked in October 2008:
- Crushed and fermented in stainless steel tanks
- Aged in 100% French Oak, 50% new
- Barrel aged for 30 months
Winemakers Description
With rich aromas of fruit, the wine is medium bodied, balanced, smooth with elegant tannins, hints of toasty oak, with a long finish. |
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2004 Cabernet Sauvignon
Tasting Notes With flavors of cherry, black cherry, cedar, rose water, subtle earthiness and cassis, the entry is round with a medium to full body. The evolution is smooth with mouth filling tannins and excellent balance. This well structured wine has a medium to long finish with reverberating flavors. This wonderful wine has loads of fruit, balance, and quality tannins which make it very approachable now, yet able to age. |
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2007 Ahnfeldt Cabernet Sauvignon,
Classic Blend, White Label, Napa Valley
This classic Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is a blend of four Bordeaux grape varieties. The Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot come from our dynamic Monticello Vineyard. The Merlot is from our deep clay Hardman Vineyard.
- 79% Cabernet Sauvignon
- 14% Merlot
- 5% Cabernet Franc
- 2% Petit Verdot
&The grapes were hand picked in September and October 2007.
- Fermented in stainless steel tanks
- Aged in 100% French Oak, 60% new
- Barrel aged for 22 months
Winemakers Description
Deep in color, this mouth coating wine has aromas of black fruit with subtle Oak. This wine has classic Cabernet flavors, is smooth, balanced yet structured, medium to full bodied, with firm tannins and a long finish. |
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2008 Ahnfeldt Diamond Mountain District
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon grapes were purchased from a Diamond Mountain Vineyard in the northern part of Napa Valley. This highly acclaimed vineyard has one of the highest elevations, (2121ft.), in the entire Napa Valley. We hand selected the vineyard blocks for the grapes used in this wine.
The Diamond Mountain grapes were blended with small amounts of Cabernet Sauvignon from our own Monticello and Kreuse Canyon Vineyards, to give the wine more complexity, and layers of flavors.
- Harvested in October 2008
- Crushed and fermented in stainless steel tanks
- Aged in 100% French Oak, 70% new
- Barrel aged for 30 months
- 129 cases produced
Winemakers Description
With aromas of rich ripe fruit, this is a mouth coating, voluptuous, beautiful cabernet. Smooth, balanced with layers of complexity, this wine just keeps on going with subtle oak, integrated tannins, and a lasting finish.
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2008 Ahnfeldt Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Monticello Vineyard
This Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon highlights our wonderful Monticello Vineyard, with its rocky soil and big flavors.
- 98% Cabernet from our Monticello Vineyard
- 2% Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot
- Hand picked in October 2008
- Crushed and fermented in stainless steel tanks
- Aged in 100% French Oak, 50% new
- Barrel aged for 30 months
- ONLY 103 CASES PRODUCED!
Winemakers Description
Rich, ripe fruit highlight the aroma and flavor, medium bodied, balanced, subtle oak flavors, smooth tannins with a long finish.
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2005 Sauvignon Blanc
Tasting Notes This classic Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc is crisp and refreshing with aromas and flavors of grapefruit, citrus, and honeydew melon,is a bit viscous and well balanced.
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2009 Ahnfeldt Quid Pro Quo
The 2009 Ahnfeldt Quid Pro Quo is a beautiful Cabernet Sauvignon based blend, and continues the traditions of our award winning 2005 vintage. The grapes come from our Hardman Merlot Vineyard, our Monticello Vineyard and Kreuser Cabernet Sauvignon Vineyards, and cabernet sauvignon from the highest elevation vineyard on Diamond Mountain.
The varieties of grapes which make up this wine are:
- 24% Merlot
- 76% Cabernet Sauvignon
This wine was aged for twenty months in French Oak, 50% new, from numerous different coopers, and was bottled in May 2011.
Winemakers Description
Our Quid Pro Quo, proprietary blend offers a wonderful balance of rich chocolate cherry and black current flavors, a bit of spice, with elegant tannins, smooth oak flavors, and a beautiful finish. |
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2006 Ahnfeldt Quid Pro Quo
The 2006 Ahnfeldt Quid Pro Quo is a beautiful blend, and continues the traditions of our award winning 2005 vintage. The grapes come from our Hardman Merlot Vineyard, and our Monticello Vineyard.
The varieties of grapes which make up this wine are:
- 60% Merlot
- 20% Cabernet Sauvignon
- 20% Cabernet Franc & Petit Verdot
This wine was aged for twenty-two months in French Oak, 50% new, from five different coopers, and was bottled in July 2008.
Winemakers Description
Our Quid Pro Quo, proprietary blend offers a wonderful balance of rich chocolate cherry and black current flavors, with elegant tannins, smooth oak flavors, and a beautiful finish. |
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2005 Ahnfeldt Quid Pro Quo
Tasting Notes
This Merlot based wine showcases the three vineyards that comprise the blend. Merlot is the foundation for the blend with cherry and black olive aromas, silky tannins, leading to a long finish. The two Cabernets Sauvignons add structure and classic Cabernet aromas of black current and licorice. The Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot add complexity and further delineate the terroir of these wonderful vineyards. |
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2009 Ahnelfdt Provocative Cabernet Sauvignon,
Napa Valley
This delicious wine is a Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon blended with other varieties of grapes.
- 82% Cabernet Sauvignon
- 8% Syrah
- 4% Cabernet Franc
- 4% Petit Verdot
- 2% Merlot
The grapes were hand picked in September and October 2009.
- Fermented in stainless steel tanks
- Aged in 100% French Oak, 50% new
- Barrel aged for 20 months
Winemaker Description
With a bouquet full of fruit, this wine is balanced, smooth, with a touch of earthiness, overlays of oak, soft tannins, with a medium finish.
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2005 Ahnelfdt Provocative Cabernet Sauvignon,
Napa Valley
Provocative is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Syrah.
The Cabernet Sauvignon grapes are from our Kreuse Canyon and Monticello Vineyards as well as another. The Cabernet Franc is from our Monticello Vineyard and the Syrah from the Napa Carneros Region. The wine was aged in French Oak and bottle in July 2007.
Provocative is dark and ruby red purple with great saturation and hue. There is a wonderful bouquet of cherries, mint, toasty oak, cassis, lavender flowers, cloves and black currants. This delicious Cabernet has a very smooth entry and the evolution on the palate is round, viscous and displays finesse and refinement.
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2006 Ahnelfdt Provocative Cabernet Sauvignon,
Napa Valley
The 2006 Provocative Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is a blend of 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot, 1% Petit Verdot, and 10% Syrah.
The Cabernet Sauvignon grapes come from our Kreuse Canyon Hillside Vineyard. The Merlot grapes are from our Hardman Vineyard near Silverado County Club, and the Petit Verdot is grown on our Monticello Vineyard. The Syrah comes from the Carneros region.
Tasting Notes
With dark ruby red colors and a hint of purple at the rim, the bouquet is brimming with sweet cherry and milk chocolate, as well as caramel and cinnamon in the background. There are also hints of currant and sandalwood. The entry is smooth and balanced with medium body and flavors echoing the bouquet. The evolution is seamless with fine-grain tannins and ample acidity. The finish is very pleasing with a good length and balance. |
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2010 Ahnfeldt Provocative Chardonnay
Our 2010 Provocative Chardonnay is from the St. James Vineyard in the Carneros area of Napa Valley. This vineyard features the Wente clone which produces a low yield, and bright fruit.
The wine was barrel fermented and aged in French Oak, and was bottled in April 2011.
Soft and rich, this Chardonnay shows layers of fruit, a bit of acid, elegance, with subtle oak touches. |
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2010 Carducci Sangiovese, Napa Valley
We created this handcrafted, small production wine from a great Sangiovese old vines vineyard located in upper Napa Valley.
Six percent off our Monticello Cabernet Franc was blended into the Sangiovese to create medium bodied Tuscan style blend.
After crush, it was fermented in stainless steel tanks then aged in 100% French Oak for 20 months.
Winemakers Description
A classic Tuscan style Sangiovese. Medium bodied with an abundance of fruit, mild tannins, a hint of oak, and a beautiful smooth finish. It compliments light to medium spicy foods, pizza, is great with pasta Bolognese, or can be enjoyed on its own! |
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2011 Carducci Pinot Grigio
Our 2010 Carducci Pinto Grigio is from the Cold Creek vineyard in the Carneros region of Sonoma County.
The wine is 100% Pinot Grigio and was fermented and aged in stainless steel tanks.
Winemakers Description
This is a classic Pinot Grigio with smooth flavors of pear, mango, and citrus, a bit viscous, and a touch of minerality. |
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Details, details, details How
do we produce the best Merlot in Napa Valley? The same way we produce
our Cabernet Sauvignon. With fanatical attention to detail at every
stage. We blend Cabernet into Merlot and Merlot into the Cabernet. The
grapes for both wines come from our own vineyards, which provides us
with complete control. During the growing season we prune, train and
thin the crop obsessively. After harvest the grapes are crushed
and fermented in tanks and bins. Fermentation generally takes ten to
fourteen days. The juice is drained from the grape skins and placed in
French oak barrels. (We use the same oak for both our Merlot and our
Cabernet.) The grape skins are then pressed and that juice is also
placed in French oak barrels. A small portion of the crushed grapes and
juice are kept in bins for approximately 30 days to extract additional
flavors and tannins from the grape skins. The wine is aged in
barrels for over twenty months. (Again, both varietals are similarly
aged.) Over that time, the barrels are racked several times. When
our winemaker feels the wines are ready, the Cabernet and Merlot are
blended with each other to give each wine complexity and additional
flavors. After bottling, the wines are aged in the bottle for a
number of months before they are released so that no wines with "bottle
shock" reach our customers.
The 2005 Sauvignon Blanc grapes come mainly from St. Helena and Yountville vineyards. Over 80 percent of the vines are more than 20 years old. The whole berries are pressed, settled, and then fermented in stainless steel tanks. The wine is then aged in wood tanks and thereafter in stainless steel tanks.
Mike Seitz, Bruce Ahnfeldt, and Kris Weber
sort cabernet grapes during the 2002 harvest
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