1994 Callaway Cabernet Sauvignon

Callaway Vineyard & Winery is in Temecula in Southern California, northeast of San Diego. The 70-acre estate grows a wide variety of grapes for red and white wines. The winery was founded in the early 1970s by Ely Reeves Callaway Jr., a Georgia-born entrepreneur who turned his experience with his family’s textile mills into a contract to supply US Army with uniforms. He also developed an early love of golf, and is the man behind the “Big Bertha” Callaway golf club. But in the 1970s he concentrated on winemaking. He sold the estate to Hiram Walker in 1981 and today it is privately owned by the Lin family. The estate makes a large portfolio of red, white and dessert wines under the direction of winemaker Craig Larson.

South Coast AVA is an appellation that includes vineyards in five counties in Southern California. Those counties are Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego. The designation was established in 1985. There are about 3,000 vineyard acres within the appellation.

One of the most widely grown grape varieties, it can be found in nearly every wine growing region. A cross between Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc. It’s a hardy vine that produces a full-bodied wine with high tannins and great aging potential.