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A blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Pinot Noir, Gamay Noir and Shiraz exact quantities unknown, but listed to from the largest proportion of the blend to the smallest. All were sourced from Niagara-On-The-Lake. When racking red wine barrels, we routinely combine the lees (the yeast and grape solids which collect on the bottoms of the barrels) from them. A barrel typically has 4-5L of cloudy wine left in the bottom after racking – this wine is tipped into a bucket and transferred to another barrel along with all other “tippings” from the racking. The “tippings” barrels are (7 full ones in 2002) resettled and racked to clarify the wine repeatedly over a period of years. All barrels used in this final racking process were French oak. This process is repeated as the lees are repeatedly racked off until there are three remaining barrels of superb red wine. The total process takes 38 months. The wine was bottled directly from barrel with no filtration on February 2 2006.
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