- BrandAmici
- CountryUSA
- RegionNapa Valley
- TypeRed Wine
- Size6
- SKU 210000043473
The name Amici means “friends” in Italian and is a tribute to the friends who started this winery as well as to their Italian heritage. Coming up with a slogan to honor this, their wine is “created by friends for friends”. Over the subsequent decades, the winery has had several owners, and its wines have been made in several production facilities. Today, the owners of Amici Cellars are John Harris and Bob and Celia Shepard.
The 2022 Amici Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley is 89% Cabernet Sauvignon with the balance Merlot and Cabernet Franc. The bouquet offers a diversity of aromatics, including floral notes of violets and lilacs along with dried sage, sweaty baseball mitt after it's been used on a hot day, dark cherry, blackberry and boysenberry, ripe Santa Rosa plum and a lingering tobacco spice. The palate tastes like a combination of both red and darker fruits, including cherry, plum, dark raspberry, and currant. The tobacco we noticed on the palate also lingers here. The tannins are already resolved and rounded and linger with a finely-polished character on the finish. This is an approachable and easy-to-drink Napa Valley wine from this variety. This wine is part of their distributed appellation cellars line of wines and is a bottling that often introduces customers to the rest of the Amici portfolio.