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2018 Cabernet Franc - Elizabeth's Vineyard

Dry Red Table Wine
102 Cases Produced
Alcohol: 10.7%
Total sulfite addition: 35 ppm
Soil: Thin loam over shale
Grape: 100% Cabernet Franc
- Whole cluster
- Ambient Yeast
- Old French oak barrels for 1 year
- Unfined and Unfiltered

ELEVAGE: Grapes were foot crushed and put into one ton bins to ferment stems and all. After 16 days the grapes were pressed and settled juice was moved to old French oak barrels to finish fermenting. In October of 2019 the wine was racked out of barrel and into tank and bottled by hand without fining or filtration.

TASTING NOTE: Nose of raspberry, graphite and a little brett. Light bodied wine with bright fruit and gentle but firm tannin. Crisp finish with a wash of shale and persistent, fine grained tannic grip. Drinks well over several days, decanting is recommended.

ELIZABETH'S VINEYARD: Located in Hector, New York on the eastern shore of Seneca Lake, this twenty-seven acre vineyard is composed of shallow loam soil over shale on a slope leading to some of the lake's deepest waters. Among the pinot noir, cabernet franc and riesling, grower John Leidenfrost also maintains blocks of spur pruned cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay over a quarter century old. This vineyard's privileged exposure and thin, shale laden soil produces wine of great depth and backbone.



Tilled up "soil" during some new planting at Elizabeth's Vineyard.


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