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Wine Details
Price:
$36.00 per bottle
Description:
In 1992 we introduced Bourriquot, moved by the memory of great wines from Right BankBordeaux that feature blends of Cabernet Franc and Merlot. Bourriquot” (Boo-ree-ko) is a slang word for a horse with its own mind, one that is not easily controlled. You might say this subversive horse leads the way in our whole stable–wines a bit outre for our little valley, pulling in a dissident direction, yet finally quite traditional.
Coming from great sites with a distinctive blend, the 2001 is one of the most exciting wines Havens has ever produced.
The 2001 horse is explosive out of the glass, with the same fine dark chocolate of the Merlot. But this is Franc in spades (or horseshoes): the fine cedar of a cigar box, fully mature roses, dried black cherries. The 2001 vintage has saddled this Bourriquot with big expectations, which it meets with the fullest body and longest finish of any vintage we’ve produced.
Bourriquot is unique in California, a wine based on Cabernet Franc and Merlot that attempts to celebrate those grapes’ native character, not cover it over.
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