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2021 Trilogy
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Varietal:
85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Petit Verdot, 5% Malbec
Cellar:
Enjoy Now or cellar until 2041
Cases:
2,300
Meat Pairing:
French Cassoulet or grilled Flank steak
Vegetarian Pairing:
Fig and Goat Cheese salad w/ Greens and Balsamic dressing
Cheese Pairing:
Parmigiano-Reggiano or Grana Padano

2021 Trilogy

94
Points, Jeb Dunnuck

Flora Springs Trilogy is a Cabernet Sauvignon-based blend, lovingly crafted by Flora Springs for four decades. With each vintage of this iconic Napa Valley wine, we keep three promises to our customers: longevity in sustainable farming, innovation in winemaking and an enduring commitment to making the finest possible wine. Our 2021 Trilogy, the 38th bottling of this wine, represents a renewal of our craft in both vineyard practices and winemaking and coincides with an elegant new look.

Varietal:
85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Petit Verdot, 5% Malbec
Cellar:
Enjoy Now or cellar until 2041
Cases:
2,300
Meat Pairing:
French Cassoulet or grilled Flank steak
Vegetarian Pairing:
Fig and Goat Cheese salad w/ Greens and Balsamic dressing
Cheese Pairing:
Parmigiano-Reggiano or Grana Padano
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Like a sip of winter sunshine, the rosy glow of Trilogy emanates warmth and elegance with every sip. Make sure to decant for a few hours before enjoying. 

Tasting Notes

A dark, concentrated rendition of our most iconic wine, this bottling is redolent of warm, brambly blue and black fruits and metered aromatics of mint, eucalyptus and cola berry. Our 2021 Trilogy is sleek, focused and concentrated, with supporting tannins that bring a refined element to the wine’s finish.

Vineyard

Our 2021 Trilogy stands on the shoulders of sustainably-farmed Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot sourced from two small blocks in the Komes vineyard on the gently-sloping western hills of the Mayacamas Mountain range in the Rutherford AVA. The site, which backs up to a forest of valley oaks, live oaks, and coastal redwoods, has been in our family since 1977. Recent improvements to this site include a redesign of its blocks to reflect soil differences, soil renewal and amendments, adjustments in irrigation applications and gentle pruning techniques.

Winemaking

Our 2021 Trilogy was fermented in stainless steel and aged in small French (90%) and American (10%) oak barrels for 18 months. As the wine matured, we conducted blending trials once a month amid much discussion to arrive at the ideal varietal and vineyard component percentages.

Vintage

The 2021 vintage in Napa Valley was smooth and uneventful, producing low yields of intensely-flavored, tightly-sized grape clusters. Bud break for our Cabernet Sauvignon occurred in late March. The ensuing dry, even weather resulted in a natural crop load on the vines, and the flavor-packed grapes led to powerful, concentrated wines.

Jeb Dunnuck
94
Points

"...medium to full-bodied, ripe, concentrated, satisfying effort has lots of blueberry and darker raspberry-like fruit, some chocolaty oak and dusty minerality, ripe tannins, and a great finish. I love its overall balance, it has notable purity."

Jeb Dunnuck, February, 2024
Joe Czerwinski
93
Points

"...intriguing bouquet of ripe cherries, fine sandalwood and a hint of mint too. Medium to full-bodied, nicely proportioned and silky in feel, with a lingering finish"

Joe Czerwinski, January 2024
James Suckling
92
Points

"Ripe blackberries, cassis, black olives, cedar and vanilla on the nose. Hints of pencil shavings, too. Full and polished with fine and compact tannins and a lingering finish. Bright and vivid."

James Suckling, December 2023

93 Points

Decanter.com
"Gorgeous perfumed blue and black fruits, including bramble and blackberries, frame the nose. An herbal mint and eucalyptus note on the nose indicates quality. The fruit characteristics on the palate are concentrated and focused, a study of cohesion in the glass. Velvety smooth tannins and an air of restraint make..." Read More
—Brianne Cohen. August, 2024
Savoring the Legacy: Exploring the Best of Flora Springs’ Flagship Wines
enofylzwineblog.com
"Deep garnet color with expansive cassis, blackberry, black cherry, boysenberry, leather, chapparal, vanilla, mocha,sandalwood and a a hint of peppercorn aromas. On the palate, it’s medium-bodied with balanced acidity and powdery sweet tannins. It shows cassis, blackberry, black cherry, ripe boysenberry, espresso, cacao, vanilla and graphite flavors with a long finish..." Read More
—Martin Redmond. August, 2024
Better than ever
1winedude.com
"The 2021 Trilogy ads a bit (5%) of Malbec to the Cabernet Sauvignon (85%) and Petit Verdot (10%) farmed from the Komes Vineyard in Rutherford (located on the Mayacamas’ western hillsides), all aged in French and a bit of American oak for a year and a half. The nose is the sleek, seductive expression you’d expect of a flagship Napa red: jammy blackberry, black raspberry, black currant, chocolate, oak spice, and vanilla. Supple in the mouth (as always—it’s kind of Trilogy’s thing), this vintage has maybe a bit more apparent structure and acid focus than in previous recent releases. If it’s indicative of things to come, then count me among the converts..." Read More
—Joe Roberts. July, 2024
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South Florida Reporter
"The family revitalized 20 acres in its prized Komes Ranch Vineyard in Rutherford, the primary source for this beautiful wine. This Trilogy — a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot and Malbec — continues a label that is nearly 40 years old. It has concentrated black fruit flavors with hints of mint, coffee and cola...." Read More
—Tom Marquardt & Patrick Darr, More About Wine.com. June, 2024
A Taste of Flora Springs’ Flagship Red: 2021 Trilogy
PullThatCork.com
"...dense ruby with generous fresh, juicy aromas of ripe boysenberries and ripe plums with hints of cedar. Flavors are rich and concentrated with ripe red and dark berries, plums, dusty earth, cedar and hints of vanilla. The body is medium with fine, drying tannins and a long finish. The flavors are so fresh. The aromas announce this wine’s freshness. It is absolutely delicious with abundant fresh, juicy fruit flavors. Today, Flora Springs’ wines are made in their smaller winery built specifically to make smaller-lot wines. The winemaking principles are the same with the same dedication to making delicious wines. The 2021 Trilogy is proof of that dedication..." Read More
—Nancy & Peter Brazil. May, 2024
96 Points: Publisher's Picks
Tasting Panel
"Suede-textured entry with concentrated blueberry bramble and a sprinkle of white pepper. It has an approachable, caressing nature with a mocha-mint middle. An embrace of graphite adds to the concentration, with a soil-rich core, reminiscent of Pauillac..." Read More.
—Meridith May, February 2024
Bay Area Reviews
Check, Please! Bay Area, KQED
"A worthy splurge that belongs in your cellar and on your dinner table (just make sure to decant it for a few hours before sipping!)...Flora Springs flagship bottling named Trilogy. Now in its 38th bottling, the winery has renewed its commitment to their pioneering Napa blend, which is evolving but has stood the test of time. A Cabernet Sauvignon-focused blend with added complexity from Petit Verdot and a dash of Malbec, it’s layered and structured with dark berry fruit purity and hints of herbal notes." Read More.
—Leslie Sbrocco, February 2024
93 Points: The 26 Best Red Blends For 2024
VinePair
"This is the second time we have listed this wine. It just keeps getting better. The red blend category may be new in the social consciousness, but Flora Springs has been doing it for a long time and this is their flagship wine. It has a big nose with bold fruit and black peppercorns. The palate is excellent with grippy tannins and just enough acidity to keep the wine even..." Read More.
—Keith Beavers, February 2024
9/10: Vinography Unboxed: week of 2/4/24
Vinography
"Very dark garnet in the glass, this wine smells of sweet cherry, blackcurrant, and sweet oak. In the mouth, blueberry and black cherry fruit is ripe and juicy with excellent acidity and the sweet vanilla of new oak. Lightly drying tannins add texture to the wine, as the sweet fruit and sweet oak linger in the finish. Very polished." Read More.
—Alder Yarrow, February 2024