Sage Ridge Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 8 to 25 years from the vintage release.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled prime ribeye steak, roasted rack of lamb, braised beef short ribs
✨ Technical Specifications
Perched high in the rugged, eastern hills of Napa Valley overlooking Lake Hennessey, the Sage Ridge Vineyard is a masterpiece of extreme mountain viticulture. Boasting dramatic elevations up to 1,500 feet and incredibly steep slopes of fractured shale and sandstone, this site forces the vines to struggle, resulting in tiny, highly concentrated berries. Winemaker Russell Bevan masterfully coaxes the raw power of this mountain terroir into a wine of immense depth. The signature style seamlessly blends Bevan's trademark plush, velvet-like texture with the intense structure, dark fruit profile, and wild, savory undertones of dried herbs and crushed stones characteristic of Sage Ridge.
🍾 About the Producer
Bevan Cellars was founded in 2005 by self-taught winemaker Russell Bevan, quickly ascending to cult status within California's fine wine landscape. Celebrated for an unabashedly opulent, hedonistic, and precision-driven winemaking style, Bevan partners with premier growers across premier microclimates in Napa Valley and Sonoma County. Sourcing spans esteemed terroirs such as eastern Oakville's red volcanic and alluvial soils at Tench Vineyard, the rocky slopes of Sugarloaf Mountain, and cool maritime sites in the Russian River Valley and Petaluma Gap. Viticulture emphasizes meticulous canopy control and sustainable vineyard management, harvesting fruit at optimal physiological ripeness. In the cellar, Bevan employs minimal intervention, indigenous fermentations, squeaky-clean sorting regimens, and customized French oak aging. Benchmark bottlings include his single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignons such as Tench Vineyard and Sugarloaf Mountain, proprietary red blends like Ontogeny and EE, alongside textural, vibrant Sonoma Coast Chardonnays and Ritchie Vineyard expressions.
🍇 Grapes
Cabernet Sauvignon