2025 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon - Mira Laguna Vineyard

Cabernet Sauvignon makes up a small portion of the planted acreage at Mira Laguna. The block sits at the bottom of the hill, where cooler air settles and water flows toward the natural lagoon in the valley below. Cabernet Sauvignon is never in a hurry. It takes its time ripening and throughout fermentation, but what has become of the finished wine is everything we’ve been missing in the amevive line up. In 2025, we chose not to leaf the vines in order to preserve the tension and herbal character of the variety, qualities that are often lost in new world expressions of Cabernet Sauvignon. Of course, there is no taking the sunshine out of California, and this wine ultimately offers the best of both worlds.

We harvested the Cabernet Sauvignon in two passes, September 23rd, 2025 and after a bit of a cool spell, the other part of the block on October 8, 2025. The wine was fermented in two different ways. The first pick was fermented 27% whole cluster with gentle extraction methods, and the second pick was destemmed and fermented whole berry under submerged cap. The wines were each pressed separately after 20ish days on skins, and we barreled down to a mixture of neutral oak and twice used barrels. The wine spent 10 months in barrel and its last month in tank before being bottled unfined and unfiltered in August 2026.

Think old California cab with today’s sunshine. Dark blue fruit and enough herbal notes to give the wine a little energy. Open, joyous, and structured without being too voluptuous. She’s memorable in all of the best ways, like putting on a new pair of pumps for the first time.

• 74 cases
• Certified organic grapes, farmed regeneratively and holistically. Minimal effective SO2