Bob’s Burn Pile is Robert
Young Estate Winery’s statement that “we can make a Cab
that matches the richness and intensity of any Cab
anywhere.” Every year Bob’s is the wine with the darkest
color, the most powerful taste and aroma, and the
longest finish of all our wines. We select the fruit for
Bob’s from vines growing near the old burn pile where
Robert Young burned the brush cleared from his ranch
every spring. Only the ripest grapes are selected by
taste from this area. At harvest it is easy to see that
the Bob’s vines have been tended carefully. Crop size is
one cluster a cane. Leaves have been stripped away from
the fruit clusters. The fruit has no flaws¬all grapes
are dark black in color and taste ripe and juicy. The
wine is aged in 100% new French oak barrels the likes of
which are used by the top Bordeaux Châteauxs because of
their tight grained nature. The 2006 Bob’s Burn Pile is
stunning as always. It is full of the flavor of
blackberry pie and dark cherry with a velvety finish.
The toasty oak is clean and lingers on the palate. We
offer 2006 Bob’s Burn Pile Cabernet Sauvignon for $78 a
bottle. No discounts. Only 50 cases remaining.
This wine has not been sent out for review.
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Big
Rock Block is named after a huge boulder that dominated
the hillside behind the old prune barn that was
converted into Robert Young Estate Winery. The big rock
was removed from the hillside with dynamite and big
bulldozers leaving a slope that has areas of red clay,
subsurface smaller rock and gravel, and volcanic
material. The vines in this area are stressed and the
grape crops small. It is a perfect place to grow
Cabernet Sauvignon because the site lowers the vigor of
a varietal that can grow aggressively and develop
vegetative components in the grapes if the vines are
left alone on a fertile soil. The 2006 Big Rock Block is
100% Cabernet Sauvignon aged in 30% new French oak
barrels. The wine is full of blackberry and plum flavors
with notes of herbal spices, pepper and a hint of
chocolate. Six barrels (145 cases) were made. Price $58
per bottle.
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