Hillside Select is a wine of a place, produced each vintage from carefully selected blocks of the hillside vineyards surrounding the winery. These grapes are small and deeply coloured, with concentrated flavours enhanced by meticulous winemaking and extensive ageing in French oak barrels. Hillside Select consistently expresses the voluptuous fruit, rich flavours and velvety texture that characterise grapes grown in Stags Leap District.

Those who grow grapes and make wine have a moment at the start of every vintage when they mentally brace themselves wondering what curveballs Mother Nature will send their way (and imagining the worst). What bud break and bloom will be like, what the drama of harvest will have in store, and ultimately how the wines turn out. The moment when they announce the release of the wine is when they get to finally relax, when everything has turned out so well.

"Made from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select displays a deep garnet-purple color, bursting from the glass with scents of blueberry pie, crème de cassis, black cherry compote and chocolate box plus nuances of cedar chest, clove oil, lavender and menthol. The richly fruited, full-bodied palate has a lively skip in its step, featuring gorgeous ripe, velvety tannins and fantastic freshness to support all the spicy black fruit layers, finishing long and perfumed. An absolute triumph!
98+ Points
(Lisa Perrotti-Brown, The Wine Adcvocate Issue 251, October 2020)