About This Product
Tasting Notes:
Texturally silky and creamy, the raspberry red fruit medley dance across a chocolate backbone finishing in dark fruit, red licorice and anise lingering on a caramel periphery.
Technical Data:
Blend Composition: 15% Pinot Noir Holstein Vineyard, Dundee Hills AVA 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Syrah, 40% Merlot: Del Rio Vineyard, Rogue Valley AVA
Harvest: Hand picked Pinot Noir: 9/29/09, Cab Sauv, Syrah, and Merlot: 10/08/09
Fermentation: 90% destemmed into small open-top 1 1/4 ton fermentors; 6 day cold soak at 56F, 15 day fermentation, with punchdowns 2 times a day, peak temp 90F. No post maceration.
Aging: 10 months in 100% neutral French oak.
$17.99 / Bottle
WINE PROFILE
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The warm summer gave the Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, and Merlot a foundation for saoaking the grape on its skins for longer, bigger extraction. With the strong push of early heat, it postioned us for the ability to let the fruit hang, not worrying about the quick cooling temperatures as October neared, leaving us the ability to pick all the varieties with perfect physiological ripeness. Rain did show it's face in bits and pieces, but nothing in measures that threatened a great vintage. With the moderate maritime temperatures late in the summer it left the grape with a great deal of elegance to work with, making for a wonderful '09 Purple Hands Oregon Red Blend.
