The oldest vines (between 60 and 80 years) produce fruit unlike any other. This Cabernet Sauvignon has stupefying levels of fruit and extract.

The blackberry, blackcurrant, and jammy notes give way to pepper, mint, cedar, and black cherry. Dense and dark, with rock-ribbed tannins when young, it will round out to a smooth, lustrous finish that goes on forever at its peak.

Sommelier Select™ Old Vine Cabernet Sauvignon includes grapeskins* in the kit. Grapeskins are an excellent addition to wine kits. Not only do they enhance body, mouth-feel, and tannin, they also boost color, flavor, and aroma. This is because all of the raw ingredients for these things are found in the skin of a red grape. All of our red juices are macerated in our wineries to extract the most from their skins, but adding an extra dose of skin material turns up the volume on the wine's character.

Yield: 6 Gallons

*This recipe kit uses a RealGrape pack to boost flavor and body. Because the grape skins are not dried, they take up more space in your fermentor. This recipe requires a larger fermentor. Consider the plastic 7.9 gallon wine fermentor or the 8.5 gallon Reactor Stainless Steel Conical Fermenter.