Showket Vineyard Babs Cuvee Cabernet Sauvignon
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 8–20 years from the vintage release, allowing its intense concentration and structural elements to beautifully integrate.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled ribeye steak, roasted rack of lamb, braised beef short ribs
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the legendary Showket Vineyard, perched on the iron-rich, red volcanic slopes of eastern Oakville, this cuvée is a monument to Napa Valley's golden era of cult Cabernet. Winemaker Russell Bevan crafted the 'Babs Cuvee' as a deeply personal tribute to his mother, Barbara, selecting only the most opulent and texturally seamless barrels from the property. The vineyard's unique terroir—situated near esteemed neighbors like Dalla Valle—endows the wine with an extraordinary combination of lavish dark fruit, crushed rock minerality, and velvety tannins. Because the Showket Vineyard was later sold to Peter Michael Winery, these early Bevan bottlings have become highly sought-after collector's items, capturing a fleeting moment in Oakville's winemaking history.
🍾 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