Nickel & Nickel State Ranch 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

Nickel & Nickel

This 2007 State Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon has aromas of black cherry and loganberry that are enticing, but is the velvety palate and the juiciness of this wine that seems to define the vineyard. There is softness and a thickness to the texture that is pure enjoyment that carries through to an extremely long finish.

Wine Spectator

Intense and tightly wound, full-bodied, featuring a firm mix of loamy earth, dried black fruits, dried currant, mineral, sage and graphite. A pretty touch of blueberry peeks through on the finish. Decant. Best from 2012 through 2021. Score: 90 - James Laube, November 2009.

Type	Red
Varietal	Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage	2007
Bottle size	750mL
Alcohol content	14.2%
Appellation	California – Napa Valley - Yountville
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Wine Enthusiast	--
Wine Spectator	90
Other	n/a

Darice Spinelli, winemaker

Darice Spinelli joined Nickel & Nickel as winemaker in 1998 with the ambition to produce superior single-vineyard wines. After a decade focused on shaping the winery's single-vineyard bottlings, Spinelli added the responsibilities of winery president to her duties.

Biology graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, Spinelli began her career in the wine industry at Inglenook and Beaulieu Vineyard. In 1990, she joined Franciscan Vineyards, and with her first vintage as winemaker, attracted great acclaim from the wine industry’s toughest critics. Her tenure with Franciscan and eventual promotion to production winemaker afforded Spinelli the opportunity to produce wines from many growing areas, including the mountainous region of Mount Veeder; the flat, warm Cabernet country in Oakville; Rutherford, with its famed "Rutherford Dust" character; and regions further south to the coastal climes in Monterey. She even produced wines for Franciscan’s venture in Chile.