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Wine Details
Price:
$34.95 per bottle
Description:
This Meritage is a blend of 20% Cabernet Franc, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon and 35% Merlot from top vineyards in the Niagara Peninsula. The ‘dripper’ technique was employed on 20% of the wine. The ‘dripper’ is a method employed at harvest where left over caps (Un-pressed skins and grape pulp) from fermentation are left out for 24 hours. Gravity naturally presses this material extracting wine rich and soft tannin which is funneled directly into barrel. This adds to the structure, polish and fullness of the wine. Aging for this wine was almost a three year process: Aged in new oak for 11 months followed by further refining in older oak barrels for another 11 months and then bottle ageing for another 11 months. The result is a highly refined, elegant and complex red. Recommended Decanting as of 2006: 4 hours: Recommended ageing: 2008-2011.
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