World’s End, named after the district of Chelsea in London where Jonathan and Lyn Maltus first lived, is a Napa Valley winery started by Maltus in 2008. It is the culmination of over 20 years of winemaking in Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux and overseas by Jonathan Maltus and his team.

Emulating the estate in Bordeaux, World’s End offers handcrafted, single-vineyard and reserve fine wines. The single-vineyard wines represent different expressions of the Napa Valley and come from the top ‘vineyard designated’ blocks from both valley floor and from the mountains in limited quantities.

The reserve wines are classic and good value wines blended to combine many of the disparate terroirs that make up the Napa Valley. All are made with sense of power and elegance.

World’s End Against the Wind is a wine produced from the estate’s favorite grape variety, Cabernet Franc. There has been a surge of interest in this variety, the daddy of Cabernet Sauvignon, particularly wines made in the cooler parts of the Napa. The wine is sourced from a number of different vineyards which all have something in common; they are from cool climate areas. This gives the Cabernet Franc the lift that it needs but also delivers the exceptional ripeness necessary for both the power and complexity of a great Cabernet Franc wine.

Vinification is very similar to those wines that are made in France. After sorting – first by bunch and then, after the de-stemmer, grape by grape, a long cold soak takes place fermentation. The wines undergo their malolactic fermentation in new and one- or two-year French oak, and are aged in the same oak.