Winemaker’s Notes
Dense and inky, the 2021 Petit Verdot has intense blackberry, dark chocolate, black olive and graphite aromas with a hint of black pepper and toasty oak. Youthful freshness on the palate captures blackberry, blueberry, black licorice and bramble notes. Finely polished with intensity and length to the pleasing finish.
Winemaking
The fruit was hand-harvested in the cool morning hours and brought to the winery in half-ton bins. The clusters were then sorted using a double sorting system. First, clusters were sorted by hand, then fruit was run through a small de-stemmer that removed stems from the grapes before the individual berries were sorted. This ensures the ideal grapes were chosen. Berries were fermented following a period of resting on skins. Warm fermentation temperatures were encouraged along with gentle cap maceration to achieve the desired color and structure for the wine before an extended maceration time on skins prior to pressing. The wine was transferred directly to barrel for 19 months of maturation.