Tasting Notes:
Texturally silky and creamy, the raspberry red fruit medley dance across a chocolate backbone finishing in dark fruit, red licorice and anise lingering on a caramel periphery.
Technical Data:
Blend Composition: 15% Pinot Noir Holstein Vineyard, Dundee Hills AVA 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Syrah, 40% Merlot: Del Rio Vineyard, Rogue Valley AVA
Harvest: Hand picked Pinot Noir: 9/29/09, Cab Sauv, Syrah, and Merlot: 10/08/09
Fermentation: 90% destemmed into small open-top 1 1/4 ton fermentors; 6 day cold soak at 56F, 15 day fermentation, with punchdowns 2 times a day, peak temp 90F. No post maceration.
Aging: 10 months in 100% neutral French oak.
