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Wine Details
Price:
$12.00 per bottle
Description:
You may not realize that winemakers in the US are not permitted to use a varietal name such as Cabernet on a bottle unless it contains at least 75% of that wine. Designed to protect the consumer, it also imposes limitation on our choices. (Meanwhile, the French, for example, are free to blend up to several different grapes in any amount for red Bordeaux.) To overcome this creative constraint, I produced a blend containing 73% Cabernet and 27% Merlot. I felt that the 2001 wine benefited from a larger component of Cabernet, but we will have the freedom in the future to make free-wheeling choices on the respective percentages used. Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot are two classic reds used in Bordeaux and each brings its own strengths to the blend, building a whole superior to the sum of its parts. Merlot contributes fresh blackberry fruit and Cabernet brings density and richness. The blend spent about ten months in oak. This wine is new to our portfolio and has already won gold medals in all three of the competitions in which it was entered!
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