"The Leaf" Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Red Wine – THE LEAF is a wine inspired by the understanding that nature is always magnificent, even when it is challenging. In one particularly devastating season years ago, we walked through Obsidian Ridge Vineyard while overhead, smoke and ash drifting from distant fires blocked the sun. As we came to accept that our crop was lost, a single silver leaf floated gracefully to the ground at our feet. A thing of terrible beauty—flash-carbonized in an instant—we captured it in a photograph that has since become a talisman, a work of art that reminds us of the impermanence of all things. There is no such thing as a perfect vintage. As farmers, we spend our lives working with nature. Observing. Adjusting. Discovering. Each season is unique. Some years are challenging, when nature throws everything it has at us. Others are a rare gift. The Leaf reminds us to take nothing for granted. A shocking number of things need to go right for a wine like The Leaf to exist. Grown and vinified with minimal intervention in a nearly-perfect vintage, this is a wine of rare and natural balance. The fruit is the star here, delicate, nuanced, complicated, beguiling. It is a singular Cabernet Sauvignon from a singular site in a singular year. We know we will not be able to make such a wine every year.