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2021 Cabernet Franc - Elizabeth's Vineyard

Dry Red Table Wine
104 Cases Produced
Grape: 100% Cabernet Franc
Alcohol: 10.5%
Total sulfite addition: 55 ppm
- Crushed with 25% stem inclusion
- American and French oak barrels (10-15 year-old) for 12 months
- Unfined and unfiltered
- Farming: Conventional/sustainable
- Vineyard: Seneca Lake, west facing, steep slope
- Soil: Shallow silt loam over fractured shale

TASTING NOTE: Raspberry, cherry and wood spice, light body with tiny red fruits, chalky acid and soft tannin.

ELEVAGE: Grapes were crushed into a one ton bins with twenty-five percent stem inclusion and let to ferment with once daily punchdowns. After twenty-five days the grapes were pressed and settled juice was moved to old French and American oak barrels to complete fermentation, including full malolactic, which finished in August of 2022. In mid-October the wine was racked out of barrel and bottled by hand without fining or filtration.

MISCELLANEOUS: In 2021 we decided to cut stem inclusion down to 25% for the cabernet franc, hoping to let the fruit shine through in this atypically light vintage of Elizabeth's cabernet franc.


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