Favia, Measured in Decades, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley 2021 (60 BT)

Favia, Measured in Decades, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley 2021

Release date: January 2024

Highlights:

• In the spirit of mentorship, this lot celebrates the collaboration between Favia winemaker Jessica Tarpy Shaheen and proprietor Andy Erickson. This duo has been making wine together, along with viticulturist Annie Favia, since 2008.

• Jessica moved to Napa Valley that year and became “Employee Number One” at Favia, until then a true “mom-and-pop” operation. She holds degrees from UCLA and Fresno State, but really it’s her Louisiana spirit that shines through in everything she does. Andy Erickson is a graduate of Tufts University with a Master’s Degree from UC Davis, and he likes to remind people of his blue ribbon in the Science Fair at Mary Feeser Elementary School in Elkhart, Indiana in 1977. Together these two (actually three) have put their passion into their craft for a decade and a half.

• The grapes for this offering come from Rancho Chimiles, a generational family-owned farm in the Vaca Mountains above Wooden Valley, farmed by the father-and-son team of Terry and David Wilson.

Wine Facts:

• Sustainably produced

• This is a single vineyard wine

• Wine is unfiltered

Winemaker:

• Andy Erickson and Jessica Tarpy Shaheen, Winemakers

60 bts (cn)