Nose
Notes of black cherry, chai spice, chaparral and toasted oak.
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$65 USD
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14%
3.54
7.15
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Notes of black cherry, chai spice, chaparral and toasted oak.
Bramble fruit on the palate with round, supple tannins, herbal forest character, and a long finish.
Though winter was mild and dry, spring storms delivered enough rain for the vines to thrive. Summer fog and cold nights slowed ripening while intensifying flavors and acidity.
- Rainfall: 26 Inches(below normal)
- Bloom: June
- Weather: Winter rains were late to arrive, delivering a season's worth of rainfall in March. this gave Monte Bello 75% of the 26 inches of rain for the year, which is below normal. Spring remained cold with heavier than usual fog, slowing the progress for a late September harvest.
Whole berries were fermented in small tanks with limited pump-overs resulting in softer tannins. Once pressed, each lot was kept in separate barrels until assemblage.
- Fermentation: Grapes destemmed, and sorted; 100% whole berries fermented on the native yeasts. Pressed at nine days. Natural malolactic initiated in tank, finished in barrel with additional ten weeks of lees contact.
Hand-harvested, estate-grown grapes; destemmed and sorted; fermented on the native yeasts; full malolactic on the naturally occurring bacteria; minimum effective sulfur (35ppm at crush, 140ppm during aging); four egg whites per barrel for tannin reduction; depth filtration at bottling. In keeping with our philosophy of minimal intervention, this is the sum of our actions.
Eighteen months’ time in oak has produced a sensuous wine with great appeal.
- Barrels: 100% air-dried American oak barrels (58% new, 8% one-year-old and 34% two-year-old)
Saturated purple color.
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