Palate
Strikingly exotic with brilliant focus of dense plum, woodlands, wild blackberry briar and iron constructed with bright raspberry, savory cardamom, tea leaf, and cocoa dust. Old world style with new world sensibility, this wine continues to surprise us with its dynamic and diverse profile.
The wine exhibits attractive ripe raspberry and black cherry fruit, some forest floor, earth and subtle background oak. Drink it over the next 4-5 years.
Growing Conditions
Manchester Ridge's commanding sea view, high on a crest above the pacific is triumphant once again. The exposed and severe positioning by the sea produces petite clusters of vivid intensity. The unique Mendocino Ridge (Islands in the Sky) is a discontinuous AVA, solely a series of ridges and peaks whose identity is based on altitude, only sites above the 1,200-foot fog line are included within the appellation. Sitting above the marine layer, the days are cool, rarely getting above 85f, while the inversion layer creates warm nights resulting in vines that are always working.
