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Which one you prefer may be a matter of what you grew up with or where you shop.

In its youth, upon entering toddler-hood, a Melka Cabernet reveals sinewy, ripe, dark fruit flavors and silken textures framed by ultra-fine tannins that lap about in waves of salty minerals, turned-earth, and expensive French cedar.It just gets better from there with proper aging.

How does he do it?Was it the soil?He's a soli guru, so it must be the soil.

Melka said he finds that the best vineyards possess a wealth of minerals and deep roots."If the root system is very shallow, the wines tend to be much more simplistic," he said..

But what about the barrels he ages his wine in?

A secret 100-point barrel?We have to do something differently.".

You cannot work 24 hours a day and kill yourself to push your business forward..I was just running so hard and couldn't even see all of that.

I had to learn to trust other people.As the business grew, I was actually damaging the company more by trying to do it all.