Nose

A vibrant nose filled with muddled strawberries, rose petals.

Palate

Dark chocolate that develop further on the palate, showing a balance of acidity and fine-grained tannins. Bright flavors of pomegranate, Bing cherries and ripe raspberry.

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 22 months in 265L Hungarian & French oak barriques, 40% new.