You have to love the name of this wine and would adore winery owner Suzanne Pavitt from the second you met her. Her southern charm sweeps you off your feet and this first release will too. Drinking beautifully now, this wine probably won’t be around for long (just 300 cases made).
As the story goes, Suzanne and her husband (he’s a city guy/she’s the country gal) did a lot of decision-making over their married lives on what they called their Date Night. So it seemed only natural when they decided to purchase the property to make Phifer-Pavitt that the decision was made on one of those evenings and thus the name Date Night.
The 100% organically farmed Bordeaux style grapes come from the Arthur Spencer Family Farm in the hands of winemaker Ted Osbourne (Storybook Vineyards).
2005 PHIFER PAVITT, NAPA VALLEY
CABERNET SAUVIGNON (DATE NIGHT)
Opens with intoxicating aromas of fresh berries, dark chocolate, cut hay, rhubarb, and wild herbs. Then bursts onto the palate with massive brooding dark fruits, accented with chaparral spices, refined toasty oak, tobacco, tea leaves and leather. All that ripeness is held up with an elegant array of structured and chewy tannins. The finish is focused and long. This is Napa Cabernet at its hedonistic best. Drink 2008 to 2015.
Retail Price ............................................................... $75
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