$100.00
A wine of focused distinction showing aromas of dark cherry, black currant, cassis, licorice, espresso and a note of graphite. The wine is well-structured, vivid and elegant on the palate presenting succulent cherry and plum fruit followed by pomegranate, dark chocolate and dried herbs. A rich, textured offering with a polished, lingering finish.
The fruit was hand-harvested in the cool morning hours and brought to the winery in half-ton bins. The clusters were sorted using a double sorting system. First, grapes were sorted by hand, then run through a small de-stemmer that removed stems from the grapes and dropped the fruit onto the sorting tray. Finally, the individual berries were hand-sorted to ensure that the ideal grapes were chosen. These berries were delivered to a small open-top fermenter where there was 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 final pressing. The wine was transferred directly to barrel for 19 months of maturation.
Fourteen percent of the sorted berries were fermented in French oak barrels and 5 percent were fermented in small oak tanks to add layers of complexity to the wine.
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