Available now — shipping weekly from our Oregon distribution center.
ETS report available in photos, or click here.
Situated on Rutherford’s prized eastern bench near the Silverado Trail, McGah Family Heritage Vineyard occupies one of Napa Valley’s most celebrated growing regions. Here, warm afternoon sun, cool evening temperatures, and the appellation’s famous red and brown gravelly loam soils create ideal conditions for producing fruit with remarkable concentration, structure, and balance.
While Rutherford has earned its worldwide reputation through Cabernet Sauvignon, Tannat is an extraordinarily unusual find in this appellation. Most Rutherford acreage is devoted to Cabernet and other established Bordeaux varieties, making this Clone 01.1 Tannat, planted in 2022 on 039-16 rootstock, a rare opportunity for winemakers looking to create something genuinely different from Napa Valley fruit.
The vineyard is farmed by Garvey Vineyard Management, whose meticulous attention to detail and sustainable farming practices have helped establish the McGah family vineyards among Napa Valley’s premier sites. Wines produced from McGah family fruit have earned 100-point scores, reflecting the exceptional quality of both the terroir and the farming.
But what makes this fruit particularly exciting is what Tannat can bring to the cellar.
Tannat is intensely expressive—deeply colored, highly aromatic, fruit-driven, and naturally structured. It can produce a compelling varietal wine on its own, but it may be even more exciting in the hands of a winemaker looking for a powerful blending component.
Have you ever finished a Bordeaux-style blend and wished it had just a little more fruit? More aroma? More color? More presence in the glass? Tannat may be the missing piece.
Tannat is a grape of remarkable intensity. It naturally delivers deep color, concentrated fruit, pronounced aromatics, and substantial tannin, giving winemakers an unusually broad palette to work with.
Expect a dark-fruited profile built around blackberry, black cherry, black plum, blueberry, and dark raspberry, accompanied by floral and savory notes that can develop toward violet, cocoa, spice, graphite, and earth as the wine matures.
Its natural structure makes Tannat capable of producing a serious, age-worthy varietal wine. But its blending potential is where things get especially interesting.
For Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux-style blends, Tannat can provide an infusion of ripe fruit, aromatic intensity, color, texture, and structure. A wine that feels slightly restrained aromatically can gain another dimension. A Cabernet-dominant blend that needs more fruit expression can gain richness and generosity. And its extraordinary pigment can deepen the visual intensity of the finished wine.
In other words, Tannat gives a winemaker another lever to pull.
It can complement Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Petit Verdot, and other structured reds, allowing the winemaker to experiment at blending trials and determine exactly how much additional fruit, aroma, color, and structure the finished wine needs.
And from Rutherford, the possibilities become particularly compelling. Warm Napa Valley days encourage generous fruit development, while cool evenings and well-drained benchland soils help preserve balance and structure.
Make it entirely on its own. Put a portion into your favorite Bordeaux blend. Or keep a few gallons separate until blending day and see what happens.
For winemakers who love experimenting at the blending bench, Tannat is an exceptionally interesting tool to have in the cellar.
Although Rutherford is one of Napa Valley’s smaller American Viticultural Areas (AVAs), it has long been regarded as one of the world’s premier regions for Bordeaux varieties. Its combination of warm afternoons, cool evenings, and exceptionally well-drained gravelly bench soils consistently produces fruit with remarkable concentration, natural balance, and refined structure.
The appellation is famous for wines possessing both power and elegance—ripe fruit supported by vibrant acidity, silky tannins, and the distinctive mineral complexity often associated with Rutherford’s historic bench vineyards.
Finding Tannat grown in this pedigree is exceptionally rare.
• Vineyard: McGah Family Heritage Vineyard
• Appellation: Rutherford AVA, Napa Valley
• Varietal: Tannat
• Clone: 01.1
• Planted: 2022
• Rootstock: 039-16
• Farming: Sustainably farmed by Garvey Vineyard Management
• Flavor Potential: Blackberry, black cherry, black plum, blueberry, dark raspberry, violet, cocoa, graphite, earth, spice, deep color, and pronounced aromatics
• Winemaking Potential: Exceptional stand-alone varietal or blending component for adding fruit expression, aromatics, color, texture, and structure to Bordeaux-style and other red blends
• Vineyard Pedigree: Wines produced from McGah Family vineyards have earned 100-point scores
☐ No herbicides used
☑ Limited herbicide use (typically one targeted application per season)
☐ Mechanical weed control only
☐ Information not available
Extremely limited. A rare opportunity to craft Rutherford Tannat from one of Napa Valley’s most respected family vineyard estates.
Available now and shipping weekly from our Oregon distribution center. See our current shipping and delivery details for order cutoffs and delivery options.
This product is made from fruit sourced from McGah Family Heritage Vineyard in Rutherford, Napa Valley. The vineyard name is used solely to identify the factual origin of the fruit and does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation with the vineyard owner.
Available now — shipping weekly from our Oregon distribution center.
ETS report available in photos, or click here.
Situated on Rutherford’s prized eastern bench near the Silverado Trail, McGah Family Heritage Vineyard occupies one of Napa Valley’s most celebrated growing regions. Here, warm afternoon sun, cool evening temperatures, and the appellation’s famous red and brown gravelly loam soils create ideal conditions for producing fruit with remarkable concentration, structure, and balance.
While Rutherford has earned its worldwide reputation through Cabernet Sauvignon, Tannat is an extraordinarily unusual find in this appellation. Most Rutherford acreage is devoted to Cabernet and other established Bordeaux varieties, making this Clone 01.1 Tannat, planted in 2022 on 039-16 rootstock, a rare opportunity for winemakers looking to create something genuinely different from Napa Valley fruit.
The vineyard is farmed by Garvey Vineyard Management, whose meticulous attention to detail and sustainable farming practices have helped establish the McGah family vineyards among Napa Valley’s premier sites. Wines produced from McGah family fruit have earned 100-point scores, reflecting the exceptional quality of both the terroir and the farming.
But what makes this fruit particularly exciting is what Tannat can bring to the cellar.
Tannat is intensely expressive—deeply colored, highly aromatic, fruit-driven, and naturally structured. It can produce a compelling varietal wine on its own, but it may be even more exciting in the hands of a winemaker looking for a powerful blending component.
Have you ever finished a Bordeaux-style blend and wished it had just a little more fruit? More aroma? More color? More presence in the glass? Tannat may be the missing piece.
Tannat is a grape of remarkable intensity. It naturally delivers deep color, concentrated fruit, pronounced aromatics, and substantial tannin, giving winemakers an unusually broad palette to work with.
Expect a dark-fruited profile built around blackberry, black cherry, black plum, blueberry, and dark raspberry, accompanied by floral and savory notes that can develop toward violet, cocoa, spice, graphite, and earth as the wine matures.
Its natural structure makes Tannat capable of producing a serious, age-worthy varietal wine. But its blending potential is where things get especially interesting.
For Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux-style blends, Tannat can provide an infusion of ripe fruit, aromatic intensity, color, texture, and structure. A wine that feels slightly restrained aromatically can gain another dimension. A Cabernet-dominant blend that needs more fruit expression can gain richness and generosity. And its extraordinary pigment can deepen the visual intensity of the finished wine.
In other words, Tannat gives a winemaker another lever to pull.
It can complement Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Petit Verdot, and other structured reds, allowing the winemaker to experiment at blending trials and determine exactly how much additional fruit, aroma, color, and structure the finished wine needs.
And from Rutherford, the possibilities become particularly compelling. Warm Napa Valley days encourage generous fruit development, while cool evenings and well-drained benchland soils help preserve balance and structure.
Make it entirely on its own. Put a portion into your favorite Bordeaux blend. Or keep a few gallons separate until blending day and see what happens.
For winemakers who love experimenting at the blending bench, Tannat is an exceptionally interesting tool to have in the cellar.
Although Rutherford is one of Napa Valley’s smaller American Viticultural Areas (AVAs), it has long been regarded as one of the world’s premier regions for Bordeaux varieties. Its combination of warm afternoons, cool evenings, and exceptionally well-drained gravelly bench soils consistently produces fruit with remarkable concentration, natural balance, and refined structure.
The appellation is famous for wines possessing both power and elegance—ripe fruit supported by vibrant acidity, silky tannins, and the distinctive mineral complexity often associated with Rutherford’s historic bench vineyards.
Finding Tannat grown in this pedigree is exceptionally rare.
• Vineyard: McGah Family Heritage Vineyard
• Appellation: Rutherford AVA, Napa Valley
• Varietal: Tannat
• Clone: 01.1
• Planted: 2022
• Rootstock: 039-16
• Farming: Sustainably farmed by Garvey Vineyard Management
• Flavor Potential: Blackberry, black cherry, black plum, blueberry, dark raspberry, violet, cocoa, graphite, earth, spice, deep color, and pronounced aromatics
• Winemaking Potential: Exceptional stand-alone varietal or blending component for adding fruit expression, aromatics, color, texture, and structure to Bordeaux-style and other red blends
• Vineyard Pedigree: Wines produced from McGah Family vineyards have earned 100-point scores
☐ No herbicides used
☑ Limited herbicide use (typically one targeted application per season)
☐ Mechanical weed control only
☐ Information not available
Extremely limited. A rare opportunity to craft Rutherford Tannat from one of Napa Valley’s most respected family vineyard estates.
Available now and shipping weekly from our Oregon distribution center. See our current shipping and delivery details for order cutoffs and delivery options.
This product is made from fruit sourced from McGah Family Heritage Vineyard in Rutherford, Napa Valley. The vineyard name is used solely to identify the factual origin of the fruit and does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation with the vineyard owner.
