David sabin vineyard

In what is a very unusual setup for a physical Napa Valley winery space, the Sabins reside above the winery.

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The design implementation came from David DeSante. He has significant winemaking experience at a variety of wineries Robert Mondavi, S. Anderson — now Cliff Lede and within several wine regions. Drawing upon a range of boutique wineries that he has visited and or worked for, he blended function and aesthetics seamlessly in a rather small location. David is no longer the winemaker; Alejandro Alfaro is the current Sabina Vineyards winemaker.

Alejandro originally trained with David and has helped make every vintage of Sabina. The property is 10 acres of which three acres are planted to vines, mostly to Cabernet Sauvignon with smaller amounts of Cabernet Franc. The winery was designed around these three acres, with extremely small steel fermentation tanks as well as small open top wood fermentation barrels.

This is the site of an old Sauvignon Blanc vineyard which originally dated back to the late s. And it was the property that Macauley Vineyard was founded on; one of the previous owners Ann Macauley hired winemaker Ric Forman and Jeff Sowells; they produced several vintages of a Sauternes-style dessert wine from Sauvignon Blanc grapes that were growing here at the time.