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Single Vineyard Collection CHARLES WETMORE | CABERNET SAUVIGNON Lirmore Valley, California Our Charles Wetmore Cabernet Sauvignon delivers a sense of place and great expression of our Charles Wetmore single vineyard located in the Livermore Valley. These vines provide us with a Cabernet with bold tannins and ripe fruit characteristics, which coupled with the natural acidity from the long growing season, creates a beautifully elegant & balanced wine. Single Vineyard Collection RIVA RANCH | CHARDONNAY Arrioyo Seco Monterey, California The deep, rich soils and longer growing season of the Riva Ranch Vineyard in Arroyo Seco deliver a sense of place to this wine, resulting in a unique combination of tropical, mango and papaya notes. The wine’s apple and pear foundation ensures varietal typicity, and its ripeness allows the wine to stand up to aging in new oak barrels for added elegance + balance. Wente family is recognized as California’s First Family of Chardonnay for pioneering Chardonnay in America with the first variety labeled Chardonnay in 1936 RIVA RANCH | PINOT NOIR Arrioyo Seco Monterey, California We farm 8 clones of Pinot Noir with each offering different flavors, textures and aromatics to the wine. The wine is blend of these clones combined to provide the Single Vineyard wines are the purest expression of site specific terroir delivering true varietal character and typicity Elegance & Balance expected from world-class coastal Pinot Noir. Our Riva Ranch in the glass. Our family has a deep understanding of each of our exceptional estate vineyards and their capability Pinot Noir fruit-driven providing bright lusciousness with subtle layered complexity to provide unique flavors and characteristics. Our dedication to these vineyard has given us the exclusive expertise on the nose and silky texture on the palate. in how to farm these vineyard sites to produce award winning wines. 100% Pinot Noir CHARLES WETMORE SINGLE VINEYARD RIVA RANCH SINGLE VINEYARD Lirmore Valley, California Arroyo Seco Monterey, California Located between the two major Arroyo’s in the Valley Arroyo del Valle and Arroyo Mocho, ranging in Proximity to the cool deep waters of Monterey bay and the dual wind streams help moderate climate elevation from 460ft to 735ft. creating an extended growing season allowing cooler weather varietals such as Chardonnay and Pinot Noir to fully ripen giving the wines natural balance of sugars and acidity. This vineyard site was chosen for Cabernet Sauvignon because it demonstrated the ideal climate and well drained gravely soil of the Livermore valley allowing the vines to reach optimal ripeness resulting The alluvial fan created by the Arroyo Seco River provide deep gravely loam soils with glistening river in the berry and dark fruit flavors to emerge. rocks known as “Greenfield Potatoes” impart earthy and mineral qualities to the wine. Named after one of Livermore’s most prominent pioneers who brought vine cuttings from many of Over the course of seven years the Wente Family took UC Davis-certified disease-free versions of the Bordeaux’s top Chateaus in the Livermore Valley only the best of these vines have been selected for Wente Clone and other UC Davis vines and started a nursery for their own vineyards, and to help other each new generation. wine growers who came to Arroyo Seco and Monterey helping Arroyo Seco become a prized region. The historical planting on this land and the Wente Family’s dedication to this site over time has led to Wente Vineyards farms eight clones of Pinot Noir and six clones of Chardonnay at Riva Ranch, with creating a Cabernet Sauvignon with wonderful depth and intensity. each offering different flavors, textures and aromatics to the wine. KEY MOMENTS KEY MOMENTS 1882 1889 1912 1981 1963 1983 2106 California’s first agricultural Wetmore's Livermore Valley dry Charles Wetmore brings Wente Family Purchased the Karl L Wente pioneers AVA Status Granted to the Tasting Panel awards 90 pts commissioner, Charles white wine put CA on the world back cuttings from Chateau Charles Wetmore Vineyard. Monterey County vineyard Arroyo’s Seco Growing to the 2014 Riva Ranch Wetmore established Cresta wine map by winning the Grand Margeaux and plants them in plantings Region Chardonnay Blanca Vineyards. Prix at the International Paris what would become known Exposition. as the Charles Wetmore vineyard. OUR VINEYARDS LIVERMORE VALLEY ARROYO SECO, MONTEREY.
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