VARIETY:

100% Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon

Aging | 30 Months, 100% New French Oak, 5-Year Air Dried T5 Barrels, 12 Months In Bottle Before Allocating

Production | 3 Barrels, When The Vintage Allows

Qualifications For Allotment | Past Purchase History Of DLCV, Or Wine Club Member

FOUNDING Principle:

DLCV is a wine created to celebrate the life of late co-founder and proprietor, Dianna Lynn “Candy” Venge. 

When Kirk’s mother passed away unexpectedly in 2011, our collective hearts broke. We immediately began pondering an appropriate homage to Dianna Lynn Venge, the mother of our winery, and the seed investor in Kirk’s winemaking dream. More than anything, we wanted to propose and produce something special for such a beautiful family story.

What came from that initial thought was a winemaking project to produce the best three barrels (75 cases) of Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon possible, dedicating the work to Kirk’s mother. A wine named appropriately, “DLCV.”

DLCV is the ultimate benchmark of greatness in our cellar. If it is not considered a “perfect” rendition of our efforts from the vintage, it is not produced.

Notable comparisons, in our humble opinions, place the quality in production on par with the great wine producing houses around the globe. What you will find in DLCV is a tangible, discernable quality that one always finds amongst elite peer comparisons.

A wine of this stature informs one that the work being pondered is proof of perfection. Not only are such works found in wine, they are found in art, in technology, in music, and in nature. These are rare gifts found in life that spur inspiration and the love of living.

DLCV is a quintessential work of art dedicated to a rare and beautiful soul, Dianna Lynn “Candy” Venge.