Nose

This deeply colored wine introduces itself with a powerful nose filled with aromas of dark chocolate, cherries, and hints of exotic spice and black tea.

Palate

The complex palate brings in bold tannins, bright acidity, and baking spices. The smooth, velvety texture lingers on the tongue and provides lasting flavors of sugar plums and blueberry.

Growing Conditions

2019 will go down as the greatest cool-weather vintage of the decade, maybe even further back than that. Cool vintages produce excellent wines. Fruit hangs on the vine longer, developing more complexity, revealing more depth of character, leaner fruit profiles, and more prominent minerality in the finished wines. It’s like God copy-pasted the 2011 vintage, then erased all the problematic weather events that plagued us eight years ago. The 2019 vintage that our region has been releasing will be cherished now and for years to come, as they are lively and approachable at the moment, while possessing the litheness to age gracefully for another decade or more.

Harvest

Paper Street Vineyard, Willow Creek District

Winemaking

Fermented on native yeast, 30% whole cluster, on skin for 14-18 days.

Aging

Aged for 18 months in 265L French & Hungarian barriques, 30% new.