Region: Oak Knoll

Grape: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon

A quiet power and poise, with darker and more intense fruit than the Vineyard I, more liquorice, wild herbs and rocks. It finishes with silky, weightless tannins; a benchmark of this site.

Made by Diana Snowden Seysses, this impressive Cabernet Sauvignon is sourced from the biodynamically farmed Red Hen Vineyard, owned by Bart and Daphne Araujo in the Oak Knoll District of Napa Valley. The wine is produced from four different blocks with distinct characteristics, fermented together by native yeasts.

Kashy Khaledi started Ashes and Diamonds with a singular view - to emulate the great wines made during Napa’s heyday in the 60’s and 70’s. Gathering some of the most interesting winemakers in the world today (Steve Matthiasson, Dan Petroski and Diana Snowden Seysses) and using the technologies available to those iconic wines, Kashy’s ode to the 60’s is an acclaimed success. These wines are stunning, complex and subtle – there is frankly nothing else in the world like the Ashes and Diamonds project.

“So often are you as a blazing torch with flames
of burning rags falling about you flaming,
you know not if flames bring freedom or death.

Consuming all that you must cherish
if ashes only will be left, and want Chaos and tempest.”

“Or will the ashes hold the glory of a star-like diamond, the
morning star of everlasting triumph.”