Double Blessings ‘Michael’
Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage:
- 2023
Appelation:
- Oakville, Yountville,
- Coombsville
Aging:
- 20 months in 60% new
- french oak
Variety:
- 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Production:
- 89 Cases
Story
Double Blessings is a heartfelt tribute to our twin sons, Michael and Peter—two remarkable individuals, each with a unique spirit. To honor them, winemaker Maayan Koschitzky created two distinct wines, each crafted as a single varietal expression. While Peter highlights the elegance and complexity of Cabernet Franc, Michael celebrates the depth, power, and richness of Cabernet Sauvignon. Together, these wines reflect our family’s journey, resilience, and the extraordinary blessing of raising twins.
Tasting Notes
The 2023 Double Blessings “Michael” Cabernet Sauvignon is sourced from some of Napa Valley’s most acclaimed vineyard sites, including Tench Vineyard, Sleeping Lady Vineyard, and our estate vineyard, Collinetta, in Coombsville. Each site contributes a distinct dimension to the final blend. Tench Vineyard delivers concentration and intensity, Sleeping Lady Vineyard contributes refinement and aromatic lift, and our Coombsville estate grounds the blend with cool-climate structure and energy. The result is a wine that captures the essence of Napa Valley through the seamless integration of its most celebrated terroirs.
Released November 2026
“The 2023 vintage gave us Cabernet Sauvignon with remarkable concentration, freshness, and precision. Michael reflects the extraordinary balance of the season—combining power and structure with elegance and energy in a way that makes this wine both compelling today and built for the future.”
A wonderfully seductive wine with red berry fruit and warm spice notes, followed by a noble robe of dark berry fruit that washes across the palate, framed by powerful beams of tannin that stretch wide, arresting the sides of the mouth before resolving in a wave of inky black fruit, further warm spices and rich loamy earth. All that fruit and tannin is enveloped in enticing cedarwood spices. This is a 100% Cabernet Sauvignon blend sourced from 45% Tench, 45% Sleeping Lady, 5% Vine Hill Ranch, 4% Collinetta and 1% Beckstoffer George III. Aged for 20 months in 50% new French oak. ‘Michael’ is named after proprietors Sam and Nada Simon’s son, with its counterpart wine, ‘Peter’. 90 cases produced.
A mix of a few top sites, including Tench, Sleeping Lady, Vine Hill Ranch, and Collinetta, the 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon Double Blessings Michael is a glass-staining purple-hued Cabernet that offers cassis, blueberries, black olives, iron, and smoked tobacco-driven aromatics. It’s full-bodied, rich, and powerful on the palate, with ripe, velvety tannins and a sensational finish. Based on 100% Cabernet Sauvignon and aged 22 months in barrel, it’s a shockingly good, blockbuster effort that still has terrific balance and purity. It should drink brilliantly over the coming 25-30 years or more. Drink 2025-2050.
“The 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Double Blessings Michael (100% Cabernet Sauvignon from the Tench, Georges III, and Sleeping Lady vineyards) is more concentrated and dense, with powerful… aromatics, medium to full body, a pure, layered, supple mouthfeel, and a great finish. This darker fruited, spicy, classic Napa Valley beauty will keep for 15+ years.”
“Double Blessings Michael is full-bodied, with concentrated blackberry fruits, a plethora of grainy tannins, scorched herb aromatics, dried thyme and sage, espresso bean, and mocha. It’s a richly expressi…ve wine with good grip and excellent mineral tension. It’s a sink-your-teeth-in kind of wine with lots of power and drive. It has a long, spicy finish.”
“All Cabernet Sauvignon, with the sourcing skewed toward Oakville, the 2021 Double Blessings Cabernet Sauvignon Michael delivers slightly oaky overtones backed by ripe black cherries. There’s mo…re upfront fruit here, and the wine is almost jammy, but it’s balanced and savory in the end. Full-bodied, rich and concentrated yet supple, it finishes long, ripe and tannic.”
“The 2021 Double Blessings Michael is more powerful and mineral-laced, with darker currants, iron, chalky minerals, and leafy tobacco to go with a powerful medium to full-bodied style on the palate. It’s… structured, has ripe tannins, and is a very different style compared to the perfumed, elegant, floral Peter release.”
“2019 Double Blessings Cabernet Sauvignon Michael, named after one of the Simons’ twin sons. This bottling leans more toward Oakville in its sourcing, giving it a softer plusher feel. Black cherries… dominate the nose, joined by hints of loamy earth, while the full-bodied palate is broad and expansive yet not overly weighty, with a freshness and lightness that provides an almost joyful element to the lingering finish. It’s all Cabernet Sauvignon, aged 18 months in 70% new French oak.”
