Description
This is juicy and fresh with supple red cherry and berry fruits. Notes of raspberry on the nose and palate. Elegant with nice purity and spicy complexity.
A blend of two vineyard selections. Patrician Verona Vineyard- West side of Cayuga Lake. Unknown Cabernet Franc clones planted in the 1980s on soils of Cazenovia silt loam. Sawmill Creek Vineyard- Steep hillside planting on the east side of Seneca Lake. Vines planted north-south on Lansing gravelly silt loam soils. Both soil types are a combination of both limestone and shale parent material and have great depth for deep rooting potential.
Patrician Verona Vineyard fruit picked specifically for racy acidity as a rose and was destemmed then gently pressed whole berry. Juice was cold settled and racked into a stainless steel tank before natural fermentation began. Sawmill Creek Vineyard fruit was picked for the production of red wine. The rose portion was saignee drawn from the fermenters at a rate of 20 gals/ton, after 24 hours of skin contact. The saignee was incorporated right away to the Patrician Verona Vineyard lot. After signs of fermentation, 15 of the must was moved to finish ferment in neutral white barrels. Long, slow fermentation, stainless steel tank and cold settled. No fining but filtered prior to bottling.
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