Jax Vineyards 'Y3' Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

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Jax Vineyards is a Calistoga winery led by proprietors Kimberly Jackson, Trent Jackson, and Dan Parrott, with Kirk Venge as winemaker; the Y3 name comes from the cattle brand used on their grandparents' Yarrayne ranch, with the '3' marking three generations on the land. The Y3 line, sourced from pedigree AVAs spanning Napa and Sonoma, is built to express each vineyard's terroir at scale. This Cabernet Sauvignon is 100% varietal from North Coast fruit, hand-picked and gently processed on a Pellenc sorting and destemming line, fermented in a concrete tank after fifteen to thirty days of skin contact, and aged eighteen months in 35% new, tight-grained French oak from a mix of coopers including Boutes, Sylvain, Taransaud, Gamba, and Alain Fouquet. All Jax wines ferment with 100% native yeast and are bottled unfiltered and unfined; 8,800 cases of this wine were produced.