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Single-vineyard Cab from Napa’s premier soil and viticulture guru

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    2019 Sequum Cabernet Sauvignon Kidd Ranch Vineyard Napa Valley 750 ml

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    The Dirt Doctor’s Personal Vineyard

    Since the 1980s, wineries like Bryant Family, Staglin, and Caymus have had Paul Skinner, PhD. on speed-dial. He’s “The Dirt Doctor.” The Soil Yoda. The guy who knows better than anyone in Napa Valley what to plant and where to plant it. And it turns out that when you plant some of the best vineyards in town for over 40 years, the one that you buy for yourself is pretty special.

    Kidd Ranch is Dr. Skinner’s personal site: a tiny, 1.5 acre vineyard across from Beckstoffer’s Dr. Crane Vineyard. He makes proportionally tiny amounts of wine at Pride’s facility on Spring Mountain—a testament to their close relationship—and nearly every drop gets snapped up by Sequum’s mailing list. But we’ve developed a close relationship with Paul over the years, so we nabbed an allocation of his exceptional 2019 Kidd Ranch Cab. 

    “Sequum” is a term from soil science that refers to how overlapping layers of soil interact, and despite being less than two acres, it features multiple soil types. Dr. Skinner supervised replanting to exceptionally tight spacing and ten different Cabernet clones—all in the name of building extra complexity and intensity. He once told Robb Report that the “different clones have resulted in multiple layers of flavor,” and he calls it “the best of Napa Cabernet.”

    With Dr. Skinner’s pedigree, his vineyard’s prime location, and winemaking advice from Pride, he could easily charge $150 per bottle for his wines in today’s market. But Paul is fundamentally a geology geek at heart—and his vineyard consulting is how he paves his way in the world. We’re lucky to have some of the mere 24 barrels he makes in total every year.