This elegant wine begins with powerful scents of flowers, blackberry, ripe wild berries, and baking spices. A full-bodied wine that offers layers of seductive ripe black cherry and red berry fruit flavors with silky tannins that lead to a long finish.
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APPELLATION:
Walla Walla Valley
VINEYARDS:
Pepper Bridge Vineyard
Seven Hills Vineyard
McClellan Estate Vineyard
TECHNICAL NOTES:
pH 3.64
TA 0.61 g/100mL
Alcohol 13.9% By Volume
FERMENTATION:
Small open top stainless steel tanks. The cap was punched down three times per day by hand. Free run juice was transferred to French oak barrels to complete fermentation.
BARREL AGING:
100% French oak barrels
50% New French oak
Aged 20 months
CASES PRODUCED:
340 cases
BOTTLING DATE:
June 17, 2008
RELEASE DATE:
October 1, 2008