The Contour of Luxury Spring/Summer 2020 Issue | Page 469

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What is your the newest edition to the Carte Blanche portfolio?
The newly designed, re-imagined, and annually  blended  Proprietary
Red, now renamed “The Mark!” This wine is special because it simply
is the best Cuvee blend of our best barrels from top to bottom of Napa
Valley to produce one of the very best Right Bank-Bordeaux red blends
For those who are not well-versed in viticulture, and the coalescence
of science and nature in wine-making, will you briefly explain how this
relationship is significant to your winery’s success in cultivating world-
class wine?
If we do not control the viticulture in our vineyard parcels that we are
farming year after year, then how can we effectively control the quality
of the end resulting wine? The elevage and cepage, or raising and blend-
ing of each wine into what we deem a world-class Carte Blanche Wine,
starts with the nature and farming of the vines and grape, adapting to
that year’s climate and then the science of winemaking can begin.