Beringer, Chabot Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, St. Helena

Beringer, the St. Helena winery owned by Treasury Wine Estates, is best known at the top for Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, a near-varietal Cabernet assembled from vineyards vinified separately: in 2017 it drew on ten sites led by Steinhauer and Bancroft Ranch on Howell Mountain, plus the St. Helena Home and Chabot vineyards, and spent 20 months in custom-toasted French oak, 80% new. Expect blackcurrant, cocoa, graphite and espresso, full structure and ripe tannins, and one critic sees it keeping two decades or more. Below it sit a Private Reserve Chardonnay, Knights Valley reds from Sonoma, and single-vineyard bottlings from sites such as Marston Ranch on Spring Mountain, Chabot and Steinhauer Ranch.

Region

Napa Valley (St. Helena); Knights Valley, Sonoma

Owner

Treasury Wine Estates

Vineyards

Chabot (31 ac), St. Helena Home (48 ac), Bancroft Ranch (89 ac), Steinhauer Ranch (36 ac), Pauli, Marston Ranch, Lampyridae, Knights Valley and others

Grapes

Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc

Wines

Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon; Private Reserve Chardonnay; Knights Valley; single-vineyard Cabernets

Style

Full, concentrated Napa Cabernet with mostly new French oak and long ageing potential

Website

https://www.beringer.com

Sources: beringer.com, decanter.com, Wikipedia