Franciscan
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Editorial profile
Franciscan was founded in 1972 by Justin Meyer and Raymond Duncan, named for the Franciscan friars who brought viticulture to California, and released its first vintage in 1973. Its Oakville, Napa Valley estate roots (as Franciscan Estate) once supported an extensive single-vineyard and reserve program — the Magnificat red blend, Mount Veeder Cabernet bottlings, Cuvée Sauvage Chardonnay among them — but the brand's current live site advertises a much smaller lineup of three California-appellation, variety-named wines: Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. This atlas records only what the current site names; the historic single-vineyard tier is not represented here because it no longer appears on the producer's own live pages.
Facts read from franciscan.com
What's on file
Varieties
Wines
Cabernet Sauvignon · California
Full-bodied Cabernet Sauvignon grown in California.
Unoaked, fruit-forward California Chardonnay.
California Sauvignon Blanc drawing on the cool vineyards of the Central Coast; extended fermentation before racking off heavy lees.
3 of 3 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.