Bravante Estate Reserve 2014 750ML

Bravante Estate Reserve 2014 750ML

Red Blends from Howell Mountain, Napa Valley, California

Notes from the Winemaker

We create the Estate Reserve to be an elegant, complex, and balanced Howell Mountain Wine. We blend the best lots made from our different vineyard blocks of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Merlot from both our Howell Mountain Estate Vineyards. From those best blocks, Duane individually selects the best barrels for this complex wine, which is then blended and barreled down together for extended aging.

The 2014 Bravante Vineyards Estate Reserve has intense aromas of dark cherries, plum and cassis, layered with cedar & sage, bay leaf and spice box. The rich body has silky smooth tannins and echoes the red berries and cherries, with hints of our trademark Howell Mountain chalk and minerality.

Reviews and Accolades

95 Points/Jed Dunnuck
The 2014 Estate Reserve is another killer wine from this estate.  Black currants, black raspberries, spring flowers, bay leaf and incense notes all emerge from this seamless, silky, ultra-refined Cabernet that has a great mid-palate, sweet tennis, and a great finish.  It's hard to resist today yet will cruise for two decades or more. (1/31/2019)

87 Points/Wine Enthusiasm
This blend leads with 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, combining equal parts Cabernet Franc and Merlot to round out its equation. Made in small amounts, it is thick and densely packed in tannin, oak and dark-black fruit.