Wente Southern Hills Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

The cabernet sauvignon from Wente Vineyards is, strictly speaking, actually a cuvee dominated by Cabernet, in which also Californian Influences such as the Petite Sirah and Zinfandel grape varieties play a small role. It grows at Wente in the warmest slopes of the southern Livermore Valley, which gives the Southern Hills Cabernet its name. Two different Cabernet clones thrive on these stony soils with very good drainage, whose ancestors were brought to California in the 19th century by Charles Wetmore from Margaux in Bordeaux.