2005 Meritage
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| Release Date: | 09-01-07 | Alcohol: | 14.0% |
| Residual Sugar: | 0.0 | Acidity: | 0.67, pH 3.40 |
| Tasting Notes: At once both elegant and concentrated, this rich, lush wine is powerful and thought-provoking. Sweet, farm-fresh raspberries are enveloped by dark, brooding plum as you swirl the glass. The virtues of juicy, late summer fruits are sinfully woven with hedonistic, earthy blackberries as it fills your mouth. All of these forces elegantly and decisively find harmony in the luscious finale. |
Winemaker's Notes: It is great fun to blend this wine, given all of the vastly different lots of wine available from this great vintage. The individual wines were kept separate in barrels until May of 2007, with the Cabernet in all new French oak. Looking again for a combination of finesse and power, at that time I blended the best of the best, ending with 60 % Cabernet Sauvignon from Champoux Vineyard, 20 % Merlot from Milbrant's Katherine Loene Vineyard, 15% Cabernet Franc from Champoux Vineyard, and, for the first time, 5% Cabernet Franc from our Estate Vineyard. The blend was put into new French oak barrels until bottling in July of 2006. 400 cases made. Package: 750 mL screen-printed bottle |