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Wine Details
Price:
$45.00 per bottle
Description:
Cactus Hill is the hardest wine for us to put together each year. We harvest, and vinify separately, five different Pinot clones from the estate: Dijon selections 113, 114, 115, 667 and 777. After 10 months in barrel, we sit down to evaluate each wine and its relative merits. With the 2003s, our order of preference from favorite to least was 667, 777, 115, 113 and 114. Clones 667 and 777 showed great completeness. They could stand alone as individual bottlings. Clone 115 was all muscle and backbone with a dark core of black fruits. Clone 113 shined aromatically and possessed great sweetness and purity on the finish, but was somewhat hollow in the middle. A nice all-round wine, the 114 started strong but faded fast on the finish. Our approach with the 2003 Cactus involved two blending trials. The first trial was to create the heart of the wine by determining the perfect blend of 667 and 777. The second was to discover how much backbone (115) and finishing sweetness (113) our wine needed for completeness. In the end, we went with 40% 667, 40% 777, 15% 115 and 5% 113.
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