Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Franc
Maison Audebert et Fils 2018 Chinon Les Hautes Vignes
French Red
Cabernet Franc forms this dry red from Chinon. The family estate has worked from Bourgueil since the first half of the nineteenth century and now tends more than forty hectares across Bourgueil, Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil and Chinon. Its vineyards span sand, gravel, siliceous clay, chalky clay and tuffeau. The wines reflect a single-variety approach centred on Cabernet Franc and the character of each vintage.
Søren 2022 Boundary Spring
Canadian Red
Wild berry fruit, desert sagebrush and dusty minerality define a rich, full-bodied profile. The blend combines thirty-five percent Cabernet Sauvignon, thirty percent Cabernet Franc, eighteen percent Merlot, twelve percent Malbec and five percent Syrah. Seventeen barrels were selected, with maturation largely in neutral French oak and five new barrels. Suave, polished texture and dense concentration support further ageing.
Domaine François Chidaine 2021 Touraine Rouge
French Red
Equal parts Côt, Cabernet Franc and Pinot d’Aunis come from biodynamically farmed vineyards around Montrichard and Chissay-en-Touraine. Red fruit, faint minerality and pepper shape the profile, supported by medium tannins, bright acidity and moderate complexity. The blend carries good concentration and length, while the three varieties remain clearly integrated. Plenty of character completes the profile.
Kettle Valley 2011 Old Main Red
Canadian Red
Blackcurrant and vanilla aromas join currant, blackberry, plum and fig flavours, followed by soft, silky tannins. The Bordeaux-style blend combines Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Merlot from the Old Main vineyard with Petit Verdot and Malbec from the King Drive vineyard. Fruit was hand-picked between November 1 and 5. The wine completed malolactic fermentation and spent twenty-one months in French oak before bottling.
D. Marioni 2019 Bordo Red
American Red
Fruit and ripe plum appear with vegetal notes in this bold California red. Merlot and Malbec are blended with Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot. Fruit comes from the Yorkville Highlands in Mendocino County. The grapes are destemmed and fermented in open-top vessels with manual punch-downs. The wine is pressed to neutral barrels, aged for ten months and racked once. Alcohol is fourteen percent.
Albino Rocca 2019 Rosso di Rocca Langhe Nebbiolo
Italian Red
This red blends Nebbiolo with a small amount of Cabernet Franc. Its profile is fragrant and soft, with flavour concentration and fresh character. Fruit comes from a vineyard at Magliano Alfieri, on the left bank of the Tanaro, and from parcels in eastern Barbaresco. The wine sees no wood and is finished at 13.5 percent alcohol.
Fairview Cellars 2019 Bucket O’ Blood
Canadian Red
Garnet red colour appears with dark cherries, earth, raspberries, spice, aniseed, leather, plum and beetroot. The palate is well balanced, with smooth, ripe tannins and flavours that mirror the aromatic profile. A medium-long finish follows. This blend combines Syrah and Cabernet Franc and comes from Oliver, British Columbia. Aeration or decanting is recommended before serving.
Orofino 2014 Beleza
Canadian Red
Black cherry, vanilla, blackcurrant, espresso and dark chocolate shape the profile. The blend is sixty percent Merlot, twenty percent Cabernet Sauvignon and ten percent each Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. The wine spends twenty months in French and American oak, followed by two years of bottle age before release. It is the winery's flagship red from the Similkameen Valley.
Ursa Major 2019 Entropy Is Comforting Syrah
Canadian Red
Syrah from Sage Brush Vineyard on the Black Sage Bench is blended with five percent Cabernet Franc. Wild fermentation is used, and the wine is bottled without fining or filtration. Fresh red and black fruit appear alongside subtle spice and dried herbs. The vineyard lies in the Okanagan Valley, and the release was produced in a small lot.
Laughing Stock 2018 Blind Trust Red
Canadian Red
Blackberry, dark cherry and baking spice accompany a ripe, rich aroma, while soft tannins shape the medium-bodied palate. Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Malbec, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot form the blend. Fruit is hand picked, with clusters and berries sorted. Fermentation uses stainless-steel and French-oak vessels, followed by extended maceration and fifteen months of maturation in French oak.
Domaine Bernard Baudry 2009 Chinon La Croix Boissée
French Red
Dark pomegranate and black-cherry character appear with black pepper, rose petals and other floral notes. The wine is mineral and intensely structured, with ripe tannins and a long finish marked by acidity. Fruit comes from a steep, south-facing site covered in chalk with little topsoil. Cabernet Franc was fermented in wooden vats for twenty to thirty days and matured in oak for as long as eighteen months.
Maison Smith Montpetit 2022 Muse
Canadian Red
Red and blue fruit appear in a full-flavoured, lively profile with freshness and fullness. Cabernet Franc and Merlot form the blend. Thirty percent matures in two-year-old French oak, while seventy percent rests in neutral French oak. Barrel maturation lasts twelve months. Fining is used, while filtration is not. The fruit comes from Cawston in the Similkameen Valley.
Laberinto 2021 Cenizas Mezcla Tinta
Chilean Red
Ripe black cherry, blackberry, blueberry and cassis appear with eucalyptus, violets and subtle oak. Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon come from a hand-harvested, organically farmed vineyard in Colbún with volcanic soil. Native-yeast fermentation follows a three-day cold maceration, with twenty-two days of total maceration. The wine spends fourteen months in used French barrels and is bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Bella Wines 2024 Field Blend No. 2
Canadian Red
Cabernet Franc leads this organically grown field blend, made by the team behind Plot Vineyards. The profile is juicy, with a light herbaceous accent. The project began in Naramata with a focus on British Columbia sparkling wines. Under Bree McKage, the winery moved to Keremeos in the Similkameen Valley while continuing to work with well-farmed vineyards.
Ursa Major 2025 Rosé
Canadian Rosé
Organically farmed Cabernet Franc and Pinot Noir come from Kaleden above Skaha Lake, while the Gamay grows at Mariani Vineyard in Naramata. Each grape fermented separately with ambient yeast in stainless steel after its own preparation: Cabernet Franc was hand-destemmed and soaked for 48 hours, Gamay was whole-cluster pressed, and Pinot Noir was direct pressed. The wine was blended, hand-bottled, unfined and unfiltered. Raspberry, watermelon, blood orange, rosemary, strawberry, basil, peppercorn and rose petal appear in the profile.
Domaine de Noiré 2024 Soif de Tendresse Chinon
French Red
Cabernet Franc from 25- to 30-year-old vines grows on clay-siliceous plateaus. The organically certified fruit is hand harvested after grass cover, debudding and early leaf removal. A 48-hour cold maceration precedes five days of alcoholic fermentation at 20–22°C. Dark ruby colour and fresh red fruit accompany a tender, round and pulpy profile, with discreet tannins and a fresh finish.
Little Farm Winery 2016 Pied de Cuve Cabernet Franc
Canadian Red
Dusky plum, dried herbs, balsamic notes, wild flowers and pink peppercorn appear with earthy character, crunchy acidity and feathery yet firm tannins. The Cabernet Franc comes from Blind Creek Vineyard in the Similkameen Valley. The fruit is foot-trodden and fermented on its skins with native yeast for a couple of weeks, then gently pressed. The wine spends one year in stainless steel and is bottled unfined and unfiltered. Production totals sixty cases.
Tenuta Argentiera 2011 Villa Donoratico Bolgheri Rosso
Italian Red
Subdued aromas of dried blueberry, leather, espresso, oak and exotic spice accompany blackberry, graphite and liquorice. The tannins are lithe. Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Petit Verdot make up the blend. The vineyard lies between 30 and 80 metres, with continental sands and flysch composed of limestone, marl, clay, sandstone and siliceous rock. The site is planted at 6,000 vines per hectare.
Vignoble de la Jarnoterie 2023 Préludise Rosé Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil
French Rosé
Bright and crisp, this dry rosé brings red-currant freshness, pepper and acidity. It is made entirely from Cabernet Franc grown on sand over clay in the Loire Valley. The wine is produced by the saignée method and fermented in stainless steel. The vineyards are farmed sustainably under HEV3, and the bottling closes with natural cork.
Mariatinto 2021 Red Blend
Mexican Red
Fresh dark and red fruit, blueberry, violets and rose petals meet spice, leather, cedar and roasted coffee. The blend combines Tempranillo, Syrah, Cabernet Franc, Nebbiolo and Merlot, and matures for one year in French oak. The winery works with grapes from established growers around Ensenada and uses sustainable and organic practices in both vineyard and cellar.
Château de Pitray 2016 Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux
French Red
Ripe black fruit, spice and floral notes accompany an ample palate. The structure is solid, with freshness, velvety tannins and a long savoury finish. The blend comprises seventy-five percent Merlot, twenty-three percent Cabernet Franc and two percent Malbec. Vines grow on a clay-limestone plateau. Part of the wine matures in cement and part in oak for about twelve months.
Manoir de la Tête Rouge 2019 Tête de Lard Saumur Puy-Notre-Dame
French Red
Forest-floor, toasted and lightly animal notes accompany a silky, lively palate. The red wine is complex and rich, with present, granular tannins that remain free of astringency, a chalky texture and a long finish. Cabernet Franc grows in clay-limestone soils. Grapes are harvested by hand, and the cuvée is made under organic and biodynamic farming.
Catherine & Pierre Breton 2022 Bourgueil Trinch!
French Red
Raspberry aromas meet a tender attack and a finish marked by grape-skin texture. Cabernet Franc comes from gravel soils and vines around thirty years old. The grapes are harvested by hand, gently destemmed and cold-macerated in stainless steel. Daily pumpovers are used, and maturation lasts ten months in concrete. The Cabernet Franc vineyard is certified biodynamic.
Artakama 2023 Cabernet Franc
Canadian Red
This Cabernet Franc comes from the Black Sage–Osoyoos area of the Okanagan Valley and lists 13.2 percent alcohol. Low-input, low-intervention farming is paired with hands-off natural winemaking. Apart from a small sulphite addition at bottling, the process uses no commercial yeast, enzymes, powdered tannins, colour additives or Mega Purple. The listed sulphite addition is twenty-five to thirty-five parts per million.
Suvla 2010 Sur Red Blend
Turkish Red
Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot make up the blend. An inky core with browning at the edges accompanies plum, purple fruit, sour plum, prune, bitter coffee, cassis, toasted oak and Christmas-cake spice. The fruit is grown on the family estate on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and maturation lasts twelve months in new French oak.
Domaine Béatrice et Pascal Lambert 2022 Les Perruches Chinon
French Red
Deep purple in colour, the wine offers black-fruit liqueur, pepper, fern and graphite. Red and black fruit appear with a vegetal, spicy note, fine tannins, freshness and a delicate finish. Cabernet Franc provides the full composition. The vines grow on clay and flint soils across the Chinon plateau, and the vineyard is worked organically and biodynamically. Alcohol is thirteen percent.
Meerlust 2006 Rubicon Stellenbosch
South African Red
Deep purple-red in colour, the wine offers violet, ripe plum, cedar and spice. Fresh dark fruit fills a full-bodied, structured palate, with rounded linear tannins. The blend contains seventy-four percent Cabernet Sauvignon, eighteen percent Cabernet Franc and eight percent Merlot. Malolactic fermentation was completed in barrel, and maturation lasted twenty-four months in French oak, including sixty-five percent new Nevers barrels.
Domaine de Gaubourg 2023 Rosa IGP Val de Loire
French Red
Pale strawberry and bricky cherry in colour, this light red has floral aromas, fresh raspberry, red cherry, cherry pulp and leafy notes. The fruit lingers, while a finishing structure gives a mouthwatering element. Grolleau Noir and Cabernet Franc come from vines aged fifty to sixty years. The grapes are hand harvested, with fifty percent retained as whole clusters. Production includes fifteen days of maceration and six months of ageing in stainless steel. Alcohol is eleven and a half percent.
Milan Nestarec 2017 Forks & Knives Red
Czech Red
Cabernet Franc, Blaufränkisch, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir come from twenty-year-old vines planted on sand in Moravský Žižkov. The grapes are destemmed and undergo carbonic maceration, followed by maturation in old large oak. The wine is made without added sulphur and contains twelve and a half percent alcohol. It is a red wine from the Czech Republic.
Elian da Ros 2023 Le Vin est Une Fête Côtes du Marmandais
French Red
Abouriou, Cabernet Franc and Merlot form this red blend. Merlot and Cabernet Franc are destemmed and fermented in vats, while Abouriou is vinified in whole clusters with semi-carbonic maceration. Maturation lasts about ten to twelve months in foudres, older barrels and concrete before slight filtration. Red and dark fruit appear with spice, lively structure and an alcohol level of twelve-and-a-half percent.