2025 Governor's Cup Gold Medal Winner!

The intent behind this Cabernet Franc is to showcase one of our unique vineyard terroirs in the Shenandoah Valley. We typically blend our different Cabernet Francs together to make our varietal wine, or it goes into the several red blends that we make, but with a new shift in philosophy we’ve decided to all showcase our individual growing sites.

This is a medium-bodied wine with aromatic notes of black cherry and licorice, followed by white pepper spice. The silky texture of the fine grain tannins on the palate lead to flavors of cherry and blueberry. The wine finishes with a touch of baking spice.

The 2023 growing season will go down as one of our ripest and best vintages in modern Virginia winemaking history.The large reduction in overall crop yields simultaneously helped with the increase in quality of the grapes grown.