2016 Estate Cuvée
Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
A beautiful menagerie of black cherry, cocoa, rose petal, raspberry, mint, cedar and wet granite is the introduction to this elegant beauty. The palate offers an intoxicating mix of savory flavors: black truffle, muddled blueberry, forest floor and anise. The dense and chalky midpalate quickly evolves into a silky and seamless finish.
Vineyard Notes
100% Estate
Production Notes
Destemmed and cold soaked for 10 days with daily pump-overs. 8-day fermentation with a mix of delestages, pump-overs and punchdowns for cap management. 18-day total maceration.
Other Notes
Blend: 36% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 22% Malbec, 9% Cabernet Franc, 8% Petit Verdot
Wine Specs
Vintage
2016
Varietal
Red Blend
Appellation
Paso Robles
Vineyard Designation
Estate
Acid
6.8 g/l
pH
3.59
Aging
Aged for 22 months in 225L French oak barriques: 72% new, 28% neutral.
Fermentation
Destemmed and cold soaked for 10 days with daily pump-overs. 8-day fermentation with a mix of delestages, pump-overs and punchdowns for cap management. 18-day total maceration.
Bottling Date
July 16, 2018. Bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Alcohol %
14.6