Cade Winery, Estate, Cabernet Sauvignon, Howell Mountain, Napa Valley 2018

“This has both grippy mountain fruit characteristics as well as a sleekness, with racy-edged black currant, fig and blackberry fruit lined with bramble, apple wood and licorice snap notes. Features a strong finishing kick of fruit at the end, too. Best from 2023 through 2035.”-93WS

Gavin Newsom, Gordon Getty, and John Conover shared a vision to add a complementary estate vineyard to the valley floor terroir of their Oakville estate at PlumpJack Estate Winery. In 2005, that dream came to fruition in the form of a 54-acre estate elevated high above the fog line on the dramatic slopes of Howell Mountain—CADE Estate Winery. Similar to PlumpJack, CADE takes its name from Shakespeare, who used the term to describe wine casks, or cades, shipped from Bordeaux to England during Elizabethan times. With the opportunity to build the winery from the ground up, Newsom, Getty, and Conover were committed to constructing a state-of-the-art winery that pays tribute to the land. The building’s striking architecture, a dialogue between gentle contours and strong rectilinear forms, suggests the complexity of our wines—powerful yet nuanced expressions of our mountain terroir.