Camille Benitah Terre de Feu Lake County Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
About the wine
This luxurious, Bordeaux-style California Cabernet Sauvignon has been a long time coming...
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Camille Benitah is a world-class French winemaker who used to make $150 boutique wines at top Napa brand, Merus. Since 2013, she’s been making incredible kit just for Naked Angels in the USA, who love her wines so much they always hoover them up before we get a chance. So we had to pull in all sorts of favours to finally smuggle a batch of this gorgeous Cab Sav onto a boat.
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Camille made this wine in Lake County, which is a goldmine for brilliant Bordeaux-style wines. Just to the north of Napa, it gets the same beautiful sunshine weather, and its nutrient-rich volcanic soils produce super ripe and juicy grapes, perfect for fine Cabernet Sauvignon winemaking.
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This isn’t an in-your-face American red, it’s a French-style, sophisticated wine with aromas as enticing as freshly-baked blackberry pie. In the mouth, it’s elegant and complex, with silky-soft tannins and sumptuous flavours of raspberry, redcurrant, and yummy hints of dark chocolate, coffee and vanilla. It’s really, really delicious and as classy a US Cab Sav as you’ll find.
Best before
Drink now to 2024
Serving advice
Open/Decant 1 hour before serving
Food match
Delicious with charcuterie, steak, roast chicken, stews, hard cheeses, red fruit, or chocolate. This wine should carry you through appetiser to dessert.
Contains sulphites
Wine profile
Meet the winemaker - Camille Benitah
- Camille has been involved in the wonderful world of wine since her school days in Bordeaux, where she worked at a prestigious 17th century Chateaux. She's since moved to California and was the winemaker for one of Napa's sought after cult wines.
- But like all real artists, Camille wanted to make her own wine, her own way - her newly found Angels allow her to do just that. Her dedication to every last drop of her wine and every single step involved in making it, is clear to see and even clearer to taste.
- 'I like the early mornings and the late nights during harvest. I enjoy the people who are tirelessly tending the vines and the land so it can give us a beautiful crop. I love using French hand-crafted barrels and experiencing the wines as they are age. Then, years after, when I open a bottle and take a sip, I remember all the people and all the beautiful landscapes, sunrises and sunsets I saw while making that bottle.'
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