Camino Cellars Montecillo Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, Moon Mountain District, USA 2018

Tadeo Bouchardt's winemaking journey, CAMINO, brought him to a junction where after fifteen years making wine for others, he's able to make and bottle his own wine and share it with family, old friends and many new ones.

His path down this road, CAMINO, brought him from a 6th grade classroom in the Arizona desert to Sonoma County to pursue my love of wine in 2002. Making wine in New Zealand along with extensive travel through winemaking cellars and vineyards throughout France and Italy has enriched his winemaking palette and provided a strong foundation on which to continue my lifelong love and pursuit of wine. Since 2004 he has been making wine for the Neyers family in the Napa Valley and now CAMINO. He live's in the town of Sonoma with his wife Sarah, and kids Maya and Evan.

Fruit for this unctuous and rich Cabernet Sauvignon comes from 50-year-old vines rooted into volcanic soils in Sonoma County. Montecillo Vineyard is home to some of Sonoma's oldest Cab plantings, most of which are dry farmed and planted on steep terraces. Notes of dark fruits, blackberries, peppercorn, black truffles, and wet rocks dominate this long and luscious palate.