Scribe Atlas West Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Scribe Atlas West Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Before Scribe even had a name, we knew this remote site atop Atlas Peak in southern Napa Valley was where we wanted to grow Cabernet Sauvignon.

The cold, bright mornings give way to sunny afternoons, but the vines are spared from the sun’s heat by gentle breezes coming off the San Pablo Bay. The soils here are dominated by red volcanic material with lots of flatrock, providing exceptional drainage. Yields are small and the fruit is intense and expressive, tasting of the mountain’s stoney red earth and dense thickets of California chaparral.

We are gentle in the cellar to preserve this special terroir, restraining the use of new oak, fermenting with native yeast and bottling the wine unfined and unfiltered.

Soil Type: Hambright and Guenoc Series

26.5 °Bx | pH 3.70 | TA 3.7 g/L | 14% alc

Scribe Winery in Sonoma, Calif. produces vibrant, terroir-driven wines.
The winery–founded in 2007 on a property that pioneered pre-prohibition Sonoma Valley winemaking–is managed by fourth-generation California farmers and brothers, Andrew and Adam Mariani.

Andrew and Adam believe that the best wines are a result of a healthy relationship between man and nature, and that a vineyard managed in harmony with the greater ecosystem results in more site-specific wines that represent a sense of time and place. When vinified with non-interventionist methods, the result is a distinct wine that faithfully reflects what the vineyard naturally expresses.