Cabernet Cowboy

Meet a Cabernet cowboy named Jack. He trips the variety in Monterrey County, on the 700-acre Galante household cattle ranch and also vineyard in Carmel Valley, appreciating the rows of creeping plants that generate his estate expanded Galante Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon and other costs varietals.

Jack Galante comes from a long line of historic Carmel locals, including his terrific grandfather J. F. Devendorf that started the town of Carmel and later on developed the historical Highlands Inn. Considering that the start, when the Galante ranch was planted with grapes in 1983 to the advancement of the winery in 1994, Galante Vineyards has actually been rounding-up awards and awards across the country for their top-notch reds, to become acknowledged as one of the premier cabernet producers in Monterey Region.

As an indigenous Texan, I was promptly drawn to Jack and also his companion Dawn, for their realistic, cowboy style all jeans, boots and also large smiles. Yet past the Texas charm are vibrant wines that represent themselves, disclosing tips of the heat of Carmel Valley with layers of fruit and also earth.

Jack thinks quality fruit is the key to excellent wines. Our philosophy is to grow the finest grapes possible and let them represent themselves via the wine. He explains that the severe temperature levels of the top Carmel Valley (Cachagua) lead to a lengthy expanding season with phenomenal hang time, generating cabernet sauvignon grapes that ripen gradually for intense, abundant wines.

Look for out a bottle of the 1998 Galante Red Rose Hill Cabernet Sauvignon. The winery is aptly called, increasing over an area of crimson roses, amongst the thousands of climbed bushes expanding on the cattle ranch today. The wine itself is vibrant and also rich in shade, with a ruptured of dark berry and cherry fruits and tool tannins for a single-vineyard Taxicab that beverages well now, and also ought to enhance with age with 2008. Or sample the 1999 Rancho Galante, a winery mix of great fruit, soft tannin that is simple alcohol consumption and sets well with poultry, pork or beef.

As we going off right into the sundown, Jack leaves us with a Galante Vineyards cowboy viewpoint to keep in mind, “Never follow great wine with water … unless you’re out of excellent wine.”