Flora Springs Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc 2025
£24.95
The wine
Vibrant and expressive, with lively aromas of fresh citrus, ripe melon, passion fruit and subtle herbaceous hints. On the palate, a mouth-watering acidity, bright fruit intensity and a lovely creamy texture.
Sauvignon Blanc with a little Semillon and Malvasia, all grown in Rutherford, where the soils known as Rutherford dust are gravel, sand and loam and drain freely. Warm days are tempered by cool wind and fog off San Pablo Bay, which paces the ripening. Gently pressed and fermented in used French oak on indigenous yeasts, taken through full malolactic fermentation, then aged five months split evenly between used barrel and stainless steel.
The producer
Flora Springs
View all Flora Springs winesFlora Springs takes its name from Flora Komes and from the natural springs that rise behind the old stone winery at the foot of the Mayacamas in Napa Valley. Jerry and Flora Komes bought the derelict property in 1977, and the family has been there ever since.
The winery building itself is considerably older. It was built in 1885 by two Scottish brothers, then abandoned during Prohibition, and the Komes family restored it after buying the site. It is one of the oldest working winery buildings in the valley.
The estate now farms vineyards across Napa, from Oak Knoll lower down the valley to Rutherford and up into the Mayacamas foothills, and the range is built on that spread of sites: warmer, lower ground supplies flesh and fruit, the higher, cooler blocks supply structure and acidity. The vineyards are farmed organically with a particular focus on soil health and biodiversity.
Two wines define the house. Trilogy, a Bordeaux blend from the Komes Ranch vineyard in Rutherford, and Soliloquy, made from a Sauvignon Blanc clone found on the estate in 1989 and later certified by UC Davis as unique to that one vineyard.
