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Editorial profile
Caymus Vineyards is a family-owned winery in Rutherford, Napa Valley, founded in 1972 by Charlie and Lorna Wagner and their son Chuck, who started with 240 cases of Cabernet Sauvignon. Cabernet Sauvignon remains the estate's central focus: fruit from low-fertility valley-floor and mountain sites, high-density plantings and elevated ripeness at harvest produce a dark, concentrated, fruit-driven style.
Each year the winery sets aside its best barrels of Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon for Special Selection, and it also produces a small bottling of Napa Valley Zinfandel in honor of co-founder Charlie Wagner Sr. In 2021 the Wagners introduced Caymus California Cabernet Sauvignon, sourced more broadly from vineyard sites across the state. Caymus now anchors the Wagner Family of Wine, a portfolio that also includes Conundrum, Mer Soleil, Red Schooner, Sea Sun, Bonanza and Caymus-Suisun; Emmolo, another Wagner-family label, is tracked separately in this Atlas as its own producer.
Facts read from caymus.com
What's on file
founded
as stated by the producer
Address
8700 Conn Creek Road, Rutherford, CA 94573
Varieties
Source
https://www.caymus.com/Where it's registered
Hovering a shaded region names it; a click opens its page.
- Also bonded2650 CORDELIA RD, FAIRFIELD · Suisun Valley
The ground it sits on
Sub-AVA · Rutherford
6.4
pH, 1:1 water
20.6cm
, whole profile
168cm
to
Well drained
, dominant condition
Distribution across 37 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar
Dominant
- 21.9%
- 20.1%
- 11.4%
- 10.1%
- 5.5%
37 map units · soil described over 98.5% of the region’s area · 3.2% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 24% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.
Wines
Cabernet Sauvignon · Napa Valley
flagship; the wine the winery was founded on in 1972
Cabernet Sauvignon · Napa Valley
best barrels of the Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, set aside annually
limited bottling honoring co-founder Charlie Wagner Sr.
Cabernet Sauvignon · California
introduced with the 2021 vintage; sourced from sites across the state
4 of 4 wines link to the page they were read from. The list is what a producer publishes about itself, one citation at a time — it is not a catalog, and a wine missing from it is uncurated rather than unmade.