2022 LIOCO Cabernet Sauvignon Fondo Sonoma Valley

A LIOCO Cabernet Sauvignon? How? Why? The short is: because Sara and I are geeks who enjoy authentic wines from all varieties, around the world. We love the old school Cali Cabs from the 1970s and 1980s and still have some prized bottles in our cellar. The inspo for Fondo was 1966 Mondavi Reserve-a wine at 12.3% abv, no noticable oak, with a streak of green pyrazine running through it. Could we still make wine like that in the era of climate change? Fondo explores this question. When our friends Morgan and Chris at Bedrock told us they had just wrapped the final year on a 30 year grape contract with Mondavi (long a source for that legendary estate's Reserve Cabernet), and offered LIOCO some of that old vine, field sprawl Cab, we jumped. Our inaugural vintage 2021 gave us the confidence to wade into the sharky waters of Cab Sauv. And our follow up bottling in 2022 has determined us to continue. LIOCO is now a Cab house ;). This wine is a barrel selection made from Bedrock and (California Grand Cru) Monte Rosso. It is a deeply saturated wine that still maintains buoyancy and drinkability.