Edition 10 | May 2015

Greetings from the Mountain Wine Club, where high elevations and rugged mountain conditions reward us with wines that are bold, dramatic,
and often slightly untamed.

Your May club shipment is comprised of two of our rarest, smallest production bottlings: the 2012 La Jota Howell Mountain Cabernet Franc and the 2012 Mt. Brave Mt. Veeder Malbec. 2012, a year where flavor concentration, cluster maturity, acid, and tannin were in perfect sync throughout the growing season, is already considered one of the great vintages.

2012 Mt. Brave
Mt. Veeder Malbec

Mt. Veeder, Napa Valley, CA
Winemaker

Christopher Carpenter

Viticulturist

Mariano Navarro

Vineyard

Mt. Brave Vineyard

Composition

100% Malbec

Ageing

20 months in 78% new French oak

Alcohol by Volume

14.5%

Acclaim

91 points
Robert Parker’s
The Wine Advocate October 2014

2012 Mt. Brave Mt. Veeder Malbec

2012 La Jota Vineyard Co.
Howell Mountain Cabernet Franc

Howell Mountain, Napa Valley, CA
Winemaker

Christopher Carpenter

Viticulturist

Mariano Navarro

Vineyard

La Jota Estate Vineyard
& W.S. Keyes Vineyard

Ageing

20 months in 81% new French oak

Composition

100% Cabernet Franc

Alcohol by Volume

14.5%

Acclaim

91 points
Robert Parker’s
The Wine Advocate Oct. 2014

2012 La Jota Vineryard Co Howell Mountain Cabernet Franc
View of La Jota Vineyard from Howell Mountain