2021 OVIS Sauvignon Blanc High Valley Lake County

Our Master Sommelier Sur Lucero was emphatic as he presented this wine to our tasting panel. 

“This wine is going to be an instant classic. It’s the estate’s very first release of this, and it is IMPRESSIVE.”

Made by one of California’s most revered winemaking consultants—who developed the blueprint for luxury Napa Sauvignon Blanc—2021 OVIS Sauvignon Blanc comes from hand-harvested, high-altitude hillside fruit. It spent nine months in the finest French oak. Only 204 cases were made. 

We’ve likely never offered California Sauvignon Blanc made with this much care for under $50. It compares favorably with many top bottlings from Napa and Sonoma that command much higher prices. 

Lake County, directly above Napa, is a hotbed for some of the most outrageously delicious and affordable wines in California—and Clay Shannon is one of its most important players. He realized the potential for Lake County early on: In 1996, he bought over 2,000 acres on a series of rocky slopes at an extreme 2,500 feet of elevation, overlooking California’s largest natural lake. This was long before growers like Napa’s legendary Andy Beckstoffer bought vineyard land there and declared the region the next big thing in California wine. 

OVIS is Latin for sheep, and the flock of sheep weeding in this vineyard are part of the integrated organic viticulture that is the very ethos of the OVIS and Shannon Ridge wines. That vision of growth is not rooted in branding or marketing, but in the land itself. Shannon is working to create a self-sustaining farm that requires little in the way of agricultural inputs from outside his property.

• Fruit Intensity
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• Sweetness
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• ABV 13.50%
• 15 mins
• Now – 2030
• % Sauvignon Blanc
• Serving temperature – 48°
• Cork