2022 Black Sears Estate Cabernet Franc Cab Franc The 2022 Barbarous is the

The 2022 Barbarous is the first Bordeaux field blend Black Sears has produced — 59% Cabernet Sauvignon

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400 feet — one of the highest elevation Cabernet Franc sites in the Napa Valley

Highest elevation Howell Mountain See-clone Cabernet Sauvignon handcrafted by the incomparable Thomas Rivers Brown

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2022 Black Sears Estate Cabernet Franc Cab Franc The 2022 Barbarous is theThe 2022 Estate Cabernet Franc comes from Block Four on Howell Mountain at 2,400 feet one of the highest elevation Cabernet Franc sites in the Napa Valley. Originally planted to blend with the Cabernet Sauvignon, Thomas Rivers Brown asked us to bottle it on its own in 2008. We did. Fewer than 100 cases per vintage. Allocated exclusively to members. Farmed organically and biodynamically on volcanic, iron laden soil by the Sears family.