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Napa Valley Cabernet AVA differences

The Napa Valley Wine Library held a roundtable forum of experts to unravel the mystery of how Cabernet Sauvignon differs throughout the sub-AVAs of Napa Valley.

Napa Valley (AVA)

Just What are the AVA Distinctions
of Napa Valley Cabernet?

by Alan Goldfarb
October 15, 2007

Napa Valley’s viticulturists and winemakers sit down to puzzle over real regional diversity and come up with an answer...sort of...


We all know that in the Napa Valley Cabernet is the cat’s meow, and the cash cow that drives the limo. In the Napa Valley, Cabernet Sauvignon is king. But is a Diamond Mountain District Cabernet different from a Spring Mountain District Cabernet? Or, can one really discern the distinctions – if any, and winemaking style notwithstanding – among the Cabs from let’s say, Rutherford and Stags Leap District?

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