The Wines
Monroy Wines is a fresh face to the small-batch scene. Combining techniques learned from top Napa Valley cabernet houses and Russian River pinot noir estates, Monroy Wines creates classically-styled cabernet sauvignon of elegance, subtlety, and finesse.
"Adolfo crafts wines reflecting the purity of the land, with complex and layered flavors that lead to a graceful finish. You’ll keep coming back for more to discover the intricate flavors unfolding in the glass."
- Wine Spectrum, Featuring our 2018 vintage
2019 Cabernet Sauvignon, Chalk Hill, Sonoma County
The wine opens with rose petals, lavender, and black cherry, with herbal aromas of cedar, tobacco, and mint giving the wine an earthy freshness to accompany the floral notes. Harmonious and focused in the mouth, the fine-grained and integrated tannins support a nervy spine of acidity and understated dark fruit sweetness. This is a cabernet sauvignon of medium weight with a balance between richness and tension. Fermented entirely in closed-head French oak, and then drained and aged for 20 months in 60% new wood.
Blend
100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Appelation
Chalk Hill AVA
Varietal
Cabernet Sauvignon
Barrel Program
A mix of Vallaurine, Taransaud, and Ana Selection. 60% new.
Aging:
20 months, bottled unfined and unfiltered
2018 Cabernet Sauvignon, Chalk Hill, Sonoma County
Intensely perfumed and aromatic, filling the glass with lavender, cedar, florals, and savory herbs over notes of sweet blueberries and blackberries, all lightly lifted by hints of fresh cream and vanilla spice. Acid-driven and tense in the mouth, gently giving away to a core of fruit sweetness with firm yet fine tannin structure. The finish remains energetic and exceptionally long with a graceful fade. Fermented entirely in closed-head French oak, and then drained and aged for 20 months in 60% new wood.
Blend
100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Appelation
Chalk Hill AVA
Varietal
Cabernet Sauvignon
Barrel Program
A mix of Vallaurine, Taransaud, and Darnajou barrels. 60% new.
Aging:
20 months, bottled unfined and unfiltered
2019 Cabernet Sauvignon, Chalk Hill, Sonoma County
The wine opens with rose petals, lavender, and black cherry, with herbal aromas of cedar, tobacco, and mint giving the wine an earthy freshness to accompany the floral notes. Harmonious and focused in the mouth, the fine-grained and integrated tannins support a nervy spine of acidity and understated dark fruit sweetness. This is a cabernet sauvignon of medium weight with a balance between richness and tension. Fermented entirely in closed-head French oak, and then drained and aged for 20 months in 60% new wood.
Blend
100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Appelation
Chalk Hill AVA
Varietal
Cabernet Sauvignon
Barrel Program
A mix of Vallaurine, Taransaud, and Ana Selection. 60% new
Aging:
20 months, bottled unfined and unfiltered
2020 Cabernet Sauvignon, Chalk Hill, Sonoma County
This is the most opulent and plush of our wines to date. Blue and dark fruits abound upfront, with traces of cedar, cassis, and violets on an aromatic background of oak spice and vanilla. The wine opens generously on the palate with notes of blueberry, blackberry, and dark plum, all held in focus with a taut seam of acidity and a velvety tannin structure. As per our style, this wine was completely fermented via rolling macerations in closed barrels, drained, and then aged for 18 months in 50% new French oak. 14.5% alcohol and 110 cases produced.
Blend
100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Appelation
Chalk Hill
Varietal
Cabernet Sauvignon
Barrel Program
Vallaurine, Ana Selection. 50% new
Aging:
18 months, bottled unfined and unfiltered
"This is a touch more plush in personality than the superb wines made here in 2018 and 2019, but the difference is stylistic, rather than qualitative, and this wine is every bit as promising as those previous vintages."
- 93 Points - John Gilman, View from the Cellar
"...delivers a beautifully refined nose of sweet cassis, black cherries, tobacco leaf, dark soil tones, a touch of violets, a very judicious framing of new oak, and just a wisp of youthful cabernet leafiness in the upper register that is totally beguiling."
- 93 Points - John Gilman, View from the Cellar
"On the palate, the wine is pure, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a lovely core, fine soil signature, lovely balance and grip, and a long, fine-grained and very promising finish."
- 93 Points - John Gilman, View from the Cellar
Magallanes Monroy, LLC
PO Box 262
Geyserville, CA 95441