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This is our inaugural release of our 100% MERLOT from our Estate Rainbow & Misty Vineyards. The wine is a classic Merlot showing a pure ruby color and offering aromas of black cherry, plum, and blackberry with hints sweet pipe tobacco, menthol, and edges of lavender and sage. The wine explodes in the mouth with unexpected richness, depth, complexity and a silky smooth elegance not often found hereabouts.
This is our inaugural release of a purely varietal Cabernet Sauvignon. The wine has an almost bluish-purple hue. The nose opens with sour cherry and cranberry fruit. Following notes include tanned leather, wood smoke, sweet tobacco, mint and rose petals. At first the flavors are a little tight and edgy. But the wine has solid acidity and a firm backbone of tannin, and softens easily with decanting and aeration in the glass. I feel this wine has the stuffing and structure to age well and for quite a long period. Complementary foods demand steak or lamb, with any combination of tomatoes, olives and garlic. (Consume 2010 – 2017)
Gold Medal at the 2010 San Francisco International Wine Competition
This, our second release of our highly acclaimed “V3”, bears a striking resemblance to the initial 2005 offering, and I believe that over time may prove to be the finer wine. The color has a classic Bordeaux appearance of deep dusty garnet. The wine is rich and powerful, complex, with multiple layers and a long luxurious finish.
Double Gold Medal-2010 San Francisco International Wine Competition
This 2005 blend consists of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot. The fruit was hand picked from our vineyards on a cool morning in October, 2005. It was promptly de-stemmed, crushed and placed in fermentation bins. During fermentation we hand punched three times a day for maximum extraction of color from the skins.
When fermentation was completed we hand pressed the juice from the skins and seeds using a small Italian wooden basket press. We pressed this juice on a cool evening beneath a full moon while singing to our background CD – Mario Lanza classics. We can’t claim the music or the moon did much to improve our wine, but if the spirit of the wine makers can affect the quality of the wine, then this technique was a winner.
After pressing, the wine mellowed and aged in new and neutral French oak barrels in ideal, cool cellar conditions for eighteen months. Each of the three wine varietals was processed separately but prior to bottling, the wines were blended to our specifications as we strove for the right balance of flavor and complexity. The result is a lovely Bordeaux blend which we call V3 – a three varietals blend. The 2007 V3 blends equal amounts of Petit Verdot and Merlot (17%) to enhance the flavor and complexity of the Cabernet Sauvignon.
Gold Medal-2008 Orange County Fair Wine Compettion
Silver Medals-2008 San Francisco International Wine Competition
-2008 Santa Barbara County Fair Wine Competition
-2008 Women’s International Wine Competition