Trailside Vineyard is a single-vineyard Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon conceived by two of the industry’s most experienced and well-known professionals, Carlton McCoy Jr. MS, and Jeremy Seysses of Domaine Dujac. With the first release of the 2022 vintage, the duo crafted a profound single-vineyard wine made in a terroir-driven, ageworthy style that is an homage to Napa Valley’s glory days of the 1960s and 1970s, which they both adore. Their hope is to restore a great vineyard’s rightful reputation simply by making a wine that they would love to drink. Towards this end—and in classic Dujac style—Seysses had the idea to incorporate whole clusters and a submerged cap in the fermentation—a calculated risk that defies convention in the Napa Valley.

Their source is a historical vineyard in Rutherford—once called Wildwood Ranch—that was once a source for Spring Mountain Vineyard’s and Heitz Cellar’s Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon in the 1970s and 1980s. Located on Rutherford’s east side, it is just north of Beckstoffer’s Georges III. A pedigreed site hiding in plain sight for decades, the vineyard is notable for its diversity of gravel, volcanic and loamy soils.