Your Vintner’s Experience
Your experience begins with grapes that are impossible to get as a consumer. After aging and refining in French Oak, the finished product is 288 bottles of ultra premium, estate Mount Veeder Cabernet Sauvignon with your custom front and back labels.
Exclusively from Mount Veeder Magic Vineyards
This distinctive hillside vineyard is hand-farmed with precision, and all grapes are hand-picked.
Premium Wine Making
The wine is meticulously hand made by Jeff Fontanella, an award winning wine maker and a master at crafting Mount Veeder wines.
Premium Packaging
In addition to using the highest quality bottles, corks, and capsules, each bottle is hand labeled and customized to tell your unique story.
Vintages
This 2019 Cab is a beautiful balance of depth and concentration with a layered, multi-dimensional flavor profile and bright acidity. Perfumed aromas of wild blueberry, dark fruits, cedar, and a hint of black pepper harmoniously touch the palate. It is full-bodied with a violet hue, rounded fruit expression, and a velvety finish. Tasting Notes
This 2018 Cab marks Mount Veeder Magic Vineyards’ 10th vintage. This Cab is opaque purple in the glass. The core flavors of wild blueberry preserves, black currant, cherry, cassis, and licorice are vivid and well-defined. Aromas of violet cascade to a rich and silky finish with bright acidity and balanced tannins. This vintage is a perfect 10th anniversary wine. Tasting Notes
The 2017 growing season delivered ample rain and replenished soils after years of drought. Ideal weather at bloom yielded vigorous vines that required extra attention to ensure balance. This attentiveness resulted in a superb vintage. This 2017 Cab is exceptionally full-bodied with lingering black cherry, hints of dark chocolate and a smooth finish. It has excellent acidity and fruit expression.
This Gold Medal winning 2016 vintage is refined yet powerful. Its deep violet hue offers a perfume of black cherry, damp earth and dark chocolate covered blueberries. The velvety finish lingers on the palate for close to a minute. It is opulence in a bottle. Tasting Notes
The 2015 vintage Cabernet Sauvignon is powerful, balanced and fruit-driven. Taste juicy red and black cherries with notes of oak and vanilla. Classic Mount Veeder tannins create a long, velvety finish. This Cabernet will only improve with time in the cellar.
The 2015 harvest was one of the earliest in Napa Valley history. The yields were low, yet the fruit quality is excellent. The early growing season allowed me to leave my grapes on the vine until they offered the precise ‘spice rack’ I wanted to achieve for this vintage. Wines from 2015 will be very hard to find and will be at a premium. Tasting Notes
This 2014 vintage Cabernet Sauvignon offers great balance and excellent acidity. Notes of cherry and cassis, mixed with dark berries are present. The oak is sweet with espresso notes. This Cab has a very rich and inviting profile – huge volume on the palate that carries through to a lush and lengthy finish. Tasting Notes
This is a big, structured mountain Cab. Depth, intensity and balance best describe this 2013 vintage. Classic Mount Veeder velvety tannins frame deep, rich dark cherry and cassis. Drinkable now yet also age worthy.
Fruit concentration is the hallmark of this 2012 vintage ~ dark cherry and cassis are prevalent from the front of the palate, all the way through to a lush finish. The trademark “Veeder” tannins are pushed to their limit. This is a big, sturdy mountain Cab.
2011 Vintage Scores 95 Points Read More
This 2011 vintage is full-bodied with classic Mount Veeder flavors ~ Pure dark cherry, clove, and currants, with a hint of dried red fruit. The toasted French Oak complements the initial aromas with dark chocolate notes. Tannins are prevalent, with Mount Veeder-like fine grain textures and a long silky finish.
2010 Vintage Scores 94 Points Read More
Barreled in French Oak, this wine derives its complexity from the vineyard’s 7 differing soil types. It is rich in color and has excellent structure with a nice fruit balance – lots of classic dark cherry, cassis, hints of currant and blueberry, mocha barrel notes and true to Mount Veeder, fine grain tannins.
Your Barrel Allotment Includes
- One barrel’s worth of highly sought after Mount Veeder Cabernet Sauvignon, hand farmed, hand picked and hand crafted by our award winning Winemaker, Jeff Fontanella.
- You will receive personal updates throughout the growing season and the wine making process.
- Finished product is 288 bottles of ultra-premium Mount Veeder Cab with your bespoke label.
- Your story told on custom designed front and back labels. Includes graphic design services, printing and hand labeling.
- Bottling of your wine, using the finest quality bottles, corks and capsules.
- Wine storage for 60 days after bottling.
- Submission and facilitation of label approval with required government agencies
Additional Services (excluded from Barrel Package)
- Shipping of bottled wine (rates vary depending on quantity, method and destination)
- Long term wine storage after bottling
- Customs & Taxes (Federal Excise and/or CA sales tax may apply)
- Specialty labeling services (embossing, debossing, foil, etc.)
Pricing
For current release *
Full Barrel (288 bottles)
$30,000 USD
Half Barrel (144 bottles)
$15,000 USD
Quarter Barrel (72 bottles)
$7,500 USD
* add $5000 per vintage year for older available vintages
An experience of a lifetime
This is one of the most personal experiences my clients will have in their lives. Besides creating an exceptional wine, my favorite step in the process is working with them to create their labels. I enjoy being a part of designing a label that imparts something significant in their world, such as:
- A celebration of a birth, anniversary or marriage
- To offer as a gift or ‘thank you’ to their clients
- To mark their success in business
- In honor of someone
Several choose to purchase multiple vintages so they can build a vertical library of their private label.
This is a truly bespoke experience, and not likely something anyone they know already has.
Karen Crouse Owner, Mount Veeder Magic Vineyards