Ty Caton Little Hill Cabernet Sauvignon (Summer Hold)

Tasting notes & discussion 1

This wine will ship between OCTOBER 5th and 16th. If you want protected summer shipping, click here

Typically $65/bottle from Ty Caton Vineyards
Vintage 2023 from the Moon Mountain District, Sonoma Valley
Available for AL; AZ; CA; CO; CT; DC; FL; GA; ID; IL; IN; IA; KS; KY; LA; ME; MD; MA; MI; MN; MO; MT; NE; NV; NH; NJ; NM; NY; NC; ND; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; VT; VA; WA; WV; WI; WY
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About Ty Caton Vineyards: “At Ty Caton Vineyards, our commitment to excellence begins in the Caton Vineyard where winemaker Ty Caton sustainably farms the hillside fruit used in his Moon Mountain District wine.”

A Filing Decision

TASTING NOTES: “There is nothing “little” about this wine with its complex flavor profile and lingering mouthfeel. Aged in the finest, tightly grained French oak barrels, this wine showcases rich tannins and flavors of dark fruit: black cherry and black currants.” (AbV 15.4%)

VARIETALS: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon

BARRELS: 18 months, 60% new French Oak

PAIRS WITH: N/A

THAT REMINDS ME OF: Little Hill

What’s the actual cutoff between a hill and a mountain? There isn’t one, officially. Geologists and geographers have never agreed on a universal elevation line — the UK’s Ordnance Survey used to informally call anything over 1,000 feet a mountain, Scotland’s Munro Society drew its own list at 3,000 feet, and the US Geological Survey gave up on defining the difference altogether decades ago. So somewhere out there, a hill in one country would be filed as a proud little mountain in another, purely on a technicality of paperwork.

Which means “Little Hill” is a taxonomically unstable name. Move it a few hundred miles, redraw the survey lines, and it could reasonably start calling itself a mountain — no rock has to move, no elevation gained, just a change in whoever’s holding the map. I find that oddly comforting. Greatness, geologically speaking, is at least partly a filing decision.

ICYMI, you have two choices:

Worried Summer heat might get to your wine before your wine gets to you? Order from this sale, the page you’re on right now, and we’ll get it to you at a cooler time of year (October)!

Want Protected Summer Shipping and don’t think heat will be a problem? Order from the sale linked here! We’ll still try to get them to you with as little travel time as we can.

Some places get absurdly hot during the Summer, and in particularly unpleasant circumstances, it can damage a wine. Most people get theirs no problem, but there are a couple each Summer that fall victim to the sun no matter how fast we get them to you. If you’ve experienced that before or are afraid it’ll happen to you, we’ll hold your order for you until October, if you order from the Summer Hold sale. We are reasonably sure things will be cooler then.

Who's buying this?

How are you buying your bottles?

Hill or mountain — where do you draw the line?

If I can see the top easily, it's a hill

If I can see the top easily, it's a hill
Anything that makes me breathe hard is a mountain

Anything that makes me breathe hard is a mountain
It's about the surrounding land, not the height

It's about the surrounding land, not the height
Honestly, I just go with whatever the map says

Honestly, I just go with whatever the map says
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