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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COMPOSITION:
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. Inoculated with a Saccharomyces cerevisiae species after cold soaking. The cap was punched down three times per day. Free run juice was transferred to French oak barrels to complete fermentation.
BARREL AGING:
100% French oak barrels
50% New oak
Aged 21 months
CASES PRODUCED:
304 cases
BOTTLING DATE:
June 21, 2007
RELEASE DATE:
October 1, 2007