Meet Napa's newest winemaking hot spot.
Coombsville might have earned AVA status in 2011, but wine history here dates to the 1850s, when Nathan Coombs bought huge tracts of land and went on to found the town of Napa—and to the 1870s, when the Carbone brothers, immigrants from Liguria, Italy, planted Mourvèdre and Zinfandel in their broad-ranging ranching operation. The cellar and house they built in 1886 houses the Favia cellar today .
In modern wine times, as vineyard plantings surged through the 1970s and early 1980s, common wisdom had it that Coombsville was too cold to ripen Cabernet Sauvignon. Through the years, though, behind the scenes, grapes from the region have been the “secret sauce” in some of the valley’s most celebrated wines. Consumers just didn’t know about it, since the fruit—with no AVA status of its own—disappeared into blends from other regions.
2018 The Pact, the winery’s signature Cabernet, is dark and savory, layered with loam, graphite, leafy tobacco, and dried herbs under juicy cassis and blackberry flavors. The wine is dense, textural and rich but full of energy.saw so much to love in Coombsville , that he bought an outsized Coombsville vineyard and named it after Napa’s founder. “This is the coolest region with porous volcanic soils,” he explains. “The roots go deep, and the fruit comes in with the most balance.
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