St. Helena Winery
St. Helena Winery

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We have received many requests from vine parents asking whether or not they can purchase our wines without having to adopt more vines. To honor these overwhelming requests, we are now making our wines available for purchase. We hope this will entice more parents to enjoy our wines and continue to experience our winery and vineyard!

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The Definitions
Many of our friends and visitors to the winery have asked us why we named our wines Sympa, Scandale, and Ravenous.

Definintion Sympa
We wanted to create a wine that reflects not only the terroir of our estate vineyard but the terroir of how we live our lives in the Napa Valley. For this wine we choose the name Sympa which simply means congenial, likable and easy-going. Click here to read the technical notes for this wine.

Defininition Scandale "The Scandal"
The 2000 vintage was our first professional venture into winemaking and we wanted to share our creation with our friends and family back in France. During our 2001 New Years Eve Party we thought it would be fun to put our wine against some well known Bordeaux wines in a blind tasting which included a 1997 Haut Brion. An overwhelming majority of our close friends and family picked our wine over the French wines. This will forever be known as the Scandal or Scandale. Click here to read the technical notes for this wine.

Definintion Ravenous "To Be Ravaged"
The grapes for this blend were sourced from Block #3 of the St. Helena Winery Estate Vineyard. This wine is aged for 20 months in 65% brand new French Oak barrels and 35% once used French Oak barrels. After tasting through the finished wine comprised of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon and 20% Petite Sirah it was quite clear that wine lovers would be “ravaged” by this bottling. It only seemed appropriate that it would be named Ravenous. Click here to read the technical notes for this wine.

Sympa

VINTAGE: 2006
VARIETAL: 99% Cabernet Sauvignon
1% Petit Verdot
VINEYARD: St. Helena Winery Estate, Reserve Block #1
WINEMAKING: Fermented with estate native yeast
Cold soak at 50 degrees - 6 days
Maturation period - 14 days
Maceration period - 12 days
Racked only 2 times
Wine chemistry;
  • 26.2 Brix at harvest
  • 3.67 pH at bottling
  • 0.64 TA at bottling
Bottled unfined and unfiltered
BARREL AGING:

24 months in new French Oak Barrels;

  • Exclusively
    • Taransaud
    • Darnajou
    • Vicard
    • Seguin Moreau and
    • Bossuet
ALCOHOL: 14.83% by volume
BOTTLING DATE: November 8, 2008
TARGETED
RELEASE DATE:

September 1, 2009
PRODUCTION: 389 cases
WINEMAKER'S NOTES:

Block# 1 produces an impressively weighty, muscular, complex cabernet sauvignon. Our black/ruby-hued 2006 confirms this with a gorgeous, earthy nose and a thick, dense palate that opens slowly to reveal a mélange of currants, blueberry baker's cocoa and cherry. A succession of seductive undertones of clean earth, dried herbs adds further depth, harmonizing beautifully over a never-ending finish that melds gripping tannins with earthy notes of oak. This is a teeth-staining glimpse of a most cellar-worthy wine.

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Scandale
VINTAGE: 2006
VARIETAL: 97% Cabernet Sauvignon
2% Petit Sirah
1% Petit Verdot
VINEYARD: St. Helena Winery Estate, Block #2
WINEMAKING: Fermented with Lavin D254 Yeast
Cold soak at 50 degrees - 6 days
Maturation period – 11 days
Maceration period - 11 days
Racked only 3 times
Wine chemistry;
  • 26.1 Brix at harvest
  • 3.68 pH at bottling
  • 0.64 TA at bottling
Bottled unfined and unfiltered
BARREL AGING:

24 months in 85% new and 15% once used French Oak Barrels;

  • Exclusively
    • Marcel Cadet
    • Vicard and
    • Seguin Moreau
ALCOHOL: 14.7% by volume
BOTTLING DATE: November 8, 2008
TARGETED
RELEASE DATE:

September 1, 2009
PRODUCTION: 134 cases
WINEMAKER'S NOTES:

Our Block# 2 delivers dark garnet color, ripe blackberry, licorice, forest floor and dark semisweet chocolate aromas; velvety full mouth-feel, brambly fruit notes, currant liqueur; concentrated and structured, medium-fine grain tannins with a very long finish; this is classic valley floor Cabernet.

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Sympa

VINTAGE: 2006
VARIETAL: 80% Cabernet Sauvignon
18% Petite Sirah
2% Petit Verdot
VINEYARD: St. Helena Winery Vineyard, Block #3
WINEMAKING:

Fermented with Lavin D254 yeast
Cold soak at 50 degrees – 5 days
Maturation period – 12 days
Maceration period – 4 days
Racked only 3 times
Wine chemistry;

  • 25.2 Brix at harvest
  • 3.78 pH at bottling
  • 0.76 TA at bottling
Bottled unfined and unfiltered
BARREL AGING:

24 months in new and French
Oak Barrels;

  • Exclusively
    • Vicard and
    • Seguin Moreau
ALCOHOL: 14.4% by volume
BOTTLING DATE: November 20, 2008
RELEASE DATE: September 1, 2009
PRODUCTION: 124 cases
CELLARING: This wine should develop complexity in two years during bottle aging. Suggest that you hold for at
least one year prior to serving. Enjoy this beautiful bold wine!
WINEMAKER'S NOTES:

This 2006 Ravenous is a powerful, sweet and fruity
explosion. BIG on fruit, this wine combines the best
characteristics of both fruits. The concentrated crème de cassis, licorice, and inky blackberry elicited from the Petite Sirah, mixed with all the power of the mocha, currant, dark chocolate, and blueberry from the Cabernet Sauvignon, with a hint of tobacco creates a smooth and silky tannin structure that finishes well in the palate. Will be at its peak between 2010-2013.

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