Tasting Notes: A Cabernet Sauvignon based blend, this beautiful blend is deep garnet in color. Blackberry, creme de cassis and nutmeg greet you on the nose followed by a hint of chocolate covered black cherry. Notes of black tea, blueberry pie, black licorice and a hint of cigar box dance across your palate. Rich, round and complex, you will be delighted by the well-integrated tannin structure and long, lingering finish.
Food Matching: Traditional filet mignon with a béarnaise sauce. Tonkatsu with brown sauce. Grilled octopus also pairs nicely as well as grilled red miso soaked salmon with shitake mushrooms.
Grape Variety: 44% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, 18% Petit Verdot, 10% Syrah, 6% Petit Syrah, 2% Cabernet Franc, 1% Malbec
Climate: Mediterranean
Soil: gravelly soils over clay
Harvest: hand
Vinification: Extended maceration in SS tanks for an average of 38 days; aged in neutral French oak bbls for 20 months
Ageing: 100% French oak barrels; 20% new oak, AGEING 24 months
Acidity: 5.9g/l
PH: 3.69
Residual sugar: 1.1 g/100 ml