Thread Feather continues to a people\u2019s choice. Clearly this label resulted from the rivers of unsold juice at some of the elite addresses in the Napa. Throw in a pandemic and things would have gone on for a long time, but the fires in Napa in 2020 will definitely have an effect moving forward. Clearly, we have learned that \u2018the bird is the word\u2019. We have made the point long ago that California vintners, particularly in Napa, have continued to raise prices and pretend that everything is just rosy. If that were the case, a label like this wouldn\u2019t exist. For us it has been a fantastic source of intriguing, very polished Cabernets that taste like they had much higher price aspirations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Given the current state of affairs, owner\/winemaker Niel Koch has dialed himself in to get some remarkable juice. His company called Flight Wine Company has developed an impressive program of \u2018one-offs\u2019. He specializes in small lots of 100-500 cases of what he calls \u2018sub AVA\u2019 wines. Everything we have seen thus far has been a \u2018district\u2019 bottling, as is today\u2019s menu item, the Thread Feather Cabernet Sauvignon Mount Veeder 2018. Koch clearly knows what great wine is supposed to taste like. He learned from the best having trained under Philip Melka at Seavey Vineyards, Bryant Family and Vineyard 29, as well as a stint as Assistant Winemaker at Lewis Cellars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Thread Feather Cabernet Sauvignon Mount Veeder 2017<\/a><\/strong> comes from a single vineyard (they can\u2019t tell us which one) situated at 1000 feet above sea level on the eastern slopes of Mount Veeder on the western side of the Napa Valley just south of Oakville. The grapes, 91% Cabernet and 9% Merlot, were handpicked, sorted and then optically sorted. After a 3-day cold soak, and 14 day fermentation with extended skin contact the wine was moved into 100% French oak, 30% new. As has been the practice, production is limited and the original retail in this case stood at $65.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As with the other Thread Feather wines we have offered, this Cabernet speaks of its origins. The flavors start with urgent cassis and plum fruit laced with Veeder\u2019s telltale insistent baking spice character. There are ticks of graphite, tobacco, and earth, but the spice wins the day as it so often does in this part of the Valley. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This is mountain fruit, so it sits a little firmer out of the gate. A little air time makes a big difference.\u00a0 But the tannins are ripe and supple.\u00a0 This is a 2017 as well, so there is more structure and a little more reserved personality.\u00a0 It’ll take a touch more coaxing but you will be rewarded. It impressed the buyers more on the second day as the air had really allowed this one to expand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s a lot to like here, particularly for the price.\u00a0 We aren\u2019t talking the previously mentioned fare either as we are offering this \u2018reserve level\u2019 effort for a modest $34.98.\u00a0 It\u2019s another winner from Thread Feather as well as a great buy on serious Napa Cabernet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thread Feather continues to a people\u2019s choice. Clearly this label resulted from the rivers of unsold juice at some of the elite addresses in the Napa. Throw in a pandemic and things would have gone on for a long time, but the fires in Napa in 2020 will definitely have an effect moving forward. Clearly, … Continue reading “THE LATEST STYLISH CAB FROM THREAD FEATHER”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[578,70,631,163,800],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3890,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}