More about the 2022 QUINTESSA RUTHERFORD NAPA VALLEY RED: Quintessa's 2022 Napa Valley Red emerges as a triumph of biodynamic farming, skilled winemaking, and uncompromising vision to highlight Napa Valley's renowned Rutherford region. It is the estate's flagship expression, a Bordeaux-inspired red that speaks with unmistakable authority: darkly layered, supple in texture, and carrying a finish that lingers like an echo of the valley itself. For more than thirty years, Quintessa has stood as a beacon of Napa Valley's potential, drawing power from its dramatic landscape of hills, valleys, and benchlands. The estate, divided into 26 distinct blocks, is farmed with biodynamic principles to preserve its individuality. From this mosaic emerges a wine that captures the spirit of Rutherford, its signature "dusty" minerality, its interplay of elegance, and its ability to translate terroir into something both profound and precise. The 2022 Quintessa Red is an elegant blend of 93% Cabernet Sauvignon, complemented by Cabernet Franc, Carménère, Merlot, and Petit Verdot. Carefully aged in a combination of new and neutral French oak from top cooperages and some terracotta amphora, this wine showcases the purity of the fruit while delivering a timeless expression of the estate's character—a selection for those eager to claim the very essence of Napa Valley in a single glass.