Cain Vineyard "NV15 Cain Cuvée" Napa Valley, California NV

FROM CAIN VINEYARD:

THE WINE: Ever since 1998, in the Cain Cuvée, we’ve been blending two vintages. It’s a method that creates balance and complexity. The NV15 is a composition of 2014 and 2015, two rather powerful years. 2014 was the third year of our most recent drought, and 2015 had a very low yield due to cool foggy weather during flower ing in late May...that’s farming. There’s a big chunk of the inimitable Cain Vineyard here: fresh, aromatic, savory. But keep in mind that the ones chosen specifically for the Cain Cuvée will be our lightest, most drinkable lots, often from the coolest parts of the vineyard and usually from the older vintage, with more time in cellar. We build our Cuvée on a base of wines specifically harvested and vinified for the purpose of lightness and freshness. This is a wine of intention.

THE PRODUCER: The success of Cain depends on the combination of an incredible site, an inspired vision, patient, persevering, and tenacious ownership, and the unending hard work of the Cain team. Take any of these key elements away, and you would not be reading this—nor would we even be writing it. Each year, our work on Spring Mountain is marked by a few almost sacred moments in both the vineyard and the cellar: the beginning of pruning, the end of pruning, budbreak, flowering, veraison, bottling, the arrival of harvest interns, the beginning of harvest, the making of the wine, the end of harvest. Some of these events we acknowledge with ceremony, others we quietly observe. What follows are our thoughts and observations, our questions and curiosity about this endlessly fascinating alchemy and its history that begins in the vineyard and results in the beautiful, complex, nuanced, refined glass of wine in your hand.