John Anthony Vineyards

"The 2018 vintage continues its ascendance in the best barrel of wine selected from what has been one of our most nuanced and complex vintages of the decade. This ONE Cabernet Sauvignon is 70% from our Twisted Oak Vineyard, a hillside site that grows fruit of intense character from steep elevations and soil drainage, and 30% from our Coombsville Vineyard, a cooler climate, dry-farmed, head-trained site that develops fruit with a deep, rugged personality from its stressed growing conditions. This is the first vintage we selected a highly allocated new French oak barrel whose proprietary assemblage was curated for long cellaring that magnifies the wine’s power and precision. Chocolate covered black cherry, briar fruit, savory panatela and warm earth fragrances. A rich and refined texture envelops the palate with ripe blackberry and red plum, fresh leather, sweet pine, iron and graphite, all concentrated with a bracing energy from balanced acid and structured tannins. The 2018 ONE Cabernet Sauvignon can be enjoyed now with decanting and cellared for decades to come."

- John Anthony Truchard

"The seventh offering of The ONE John Anthony Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley is from fruit harvested on the steep, rocky, hillside terrain of Twisted Oak Vineyard. A notable expression of tension and balance in this vintage with ethereal aromatics and nuanced fruit and spice. The flavors are pure with black and red fruit notes, wild berry intensity, and framed by red stone fruit and savory herbs. Boysenberry, black raspberry, and cassis mingle with cocoa dust, bay leaf, tarragon, dried leather and wet gravel, finishing with vanilla and baking spice undertones. The palate is focused with subtle power noted for the vintage. It evolves and expands with dusty tannins that broaden as the fruit opens to expressive tertiary flavors. The acid is the pillar of The ONE’s framework and implies cellaring potential for up to 25 years."

- John Anthony Truchard

"Only the fifth release of this Cabernet Sauvignon in the seventeenth vintage of John Anthony Vineyards. The ONE continues to command great balance in aroma, flavor and structure. It is both powerful and subtle. The hillside character exhibits an intensity of fruit and spice with a layered texture that is this wine’s hallmark. The 2015 vintage produced very low yields with remarkable quality and the ONE is that epitome. Aromas show themselves immediately and evolve quickly from big fruit to flowers and spices. Both sweet and savory, there is expansive black cherry, cassis and wild berries on the palate that linger with hints of fresh Herbs de Provence, sweet tobacco and graphite. The tannins and acid indicate its ability to cellar age for decades, but it drinks exquisitely now with suggested decanting. I am very proud of the continued evolution of the ONE Cabernet Sauvignon program and hope to continue its releases from my favorite vineyards in the vintages that provide me the opportunity. This is one of my best made wines to date and I encourage you to enjoy its evolution now, and with patience, in the years to come."

- John Anthony Truchard

"The third and most commanding vintage of The ONE Cabernet Sauvignon to date. The 2013 vintage stood out as a true winemaker’s vintage. The single barrel of wine that was chosen for the ONE stood head and shoulders above hundreds of other barrels of Cabernet Sauvignon. Powerful dark fruit aromas give way to a potpourri of purple flowers and graphite. The wine has incredible balance and indicates the potential of becoming the best wine we have ever produced as it evolves with age. Dusty tannins provide mature structure for deep boysenberry and blueberry flavors. Jasmine, lilac and lavender prevail while a mineral undertone provides freshness unique to a wine with such power. Decanting several hours beforehand is necessary if savored in its youth. The ONE will continue to develop over the next 30 years."

- John Anthony Truchard