Showket Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 10-25 years from the vintage release.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled ribeye steak, roasted rack of lamb, braised beef short ribs
✨ Technical Specifications
The Bevan Cellars Showket Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon represents a legendary chapter in Napa Valley's modern wine history. Situated on the iron-rich, red volcanic soils of the eastern hills of Oakville, the Showket Vineyard was highly prized for producing grapes of extraordinary concentration and complexity. Winemaker Russell Bevan harnessed this exceptional terroir to craft a spectacularly opulent, full-bodied Cabernet Sauvignon defined by intense dark fruit, graphite, and seamless tannins. This bottling remains a collector's treasure, particularly because the vineyard was acquired by Peter Michael Winery in 2009, making these early Bevan releases rare relics of a celebrated Oakville site.
🍾 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