Front label of 2017 Schrader Colesworthy Cabernet Sauvignon 3L

2017 Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard Colesworthy 3L

Our 2017 Beckstoffer Las Piedras Colesworthy 3L will be shipped in a Schrader Cellars wooden box.

Similar to the Schrader Old Sparky program, the Schrader Colesworthy represents the best barrels from the Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard. An incredibly aromatic wine, the 2017 Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard Colesworthy bursts from the glass with notes of cassis, vanilla, and blackberries intermixed with a very interesting graphite minerality. This sexy wine delivers an intensely pleasurable mouthfeel with soft tannins that weave across the palate and dance with the fruit core, culminating in the long and vivid finish.

  • Vintage 2017
  • Vineyard Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard
  • Appellation St. Helena, Napa Valley
  • Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Clone Pure Clone 337
  • Cooperage Aged 20 months in rare Darnajou French oak barrels
  • Winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown

  • Tasting Notes

    Similar to the Schrader Old Sparky program, the Schrader Colesworthy represents the best barrels from the Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard. An incredibly aromatic wine, the 2017 Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard Colesworthy bursts from the glass with notes of cassis, vanilla, and blackberries intermixed with a very interesting graphite minerality. This sexy wine delivers an intensely pleasurable mouthfeel with soft tannins that weave across the palate and dance with the fruit core, culminating in the long and vivid finish.

  • Accolades

    99 Pts. “This is a phenomenal red with blue fruit that turns to plums, raw meat, dust and rust. Some dried flowers. Full-bodied, yet very tight and racy with dark-berry, plum and dark-chocolate character. Dried chili pepper, too. Complex and satisfying. Drink after 2022.”
    — James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com

    98 Pts. “A barrel selection from this great vineyard outside of St. Helena, the 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard Colesworthy is cut from the same cloth as the straight LPV cuvée yet has just a touch more finesse, mid-palate, depth, and length. All Cabernet Sauvignon aged 20 months in 100% new Darnajou barrels, its dense purple color is followed by pure cassis and blueberry fruits, and it shows more spring flowers, violets, and sappy herbs with time in the glass. There’s plenty of background oak as well as tannins, so hide bottles for a solid 4-5 years if you can. It’s another incredibly ageworthy 2017 that will keep for 20-25 years or more.”
    — Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com

  • Vineyard

    The Las Piedras Vineyard, a name that translates to “the stones” in Spanish, is an exceptional rolling estate in North East St. Helena district that carries a rich viticultural history dating back to its founding by Edward Bale in the 1840s. An exceptional terroir makes this vineyard unique, where the vines contour to the gentle slope and live in rocky soil that creates a perfectly stressed environment ideal for Cabernet Sauvignon. The result is fruit that is remarkably dense and wonderfully concentrated, abundant with a provocative and elegant minerality, and bursting with deep, lush black and blue fruit flavors complemented by magnificent structure.

  • Vintage

    Spring of 2017 was one of the largest winter rainfall totals we have experienced in recent years. Fortunately, once flowering started, the rains held off and allowed for optimal fruit set and prepared the clusters for even fruit ripening. Veraison finished at the end of August and the vines were positioned for success. Due to a combination of natural phenomena, the yields in 2017 are slightly lower and nearly matched to those that we produced in 2016 and 2015. This lower than average yield allowed for greater concentration on the vine providing the wines with more depth of character and rich complexity.

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