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2015 HECTOR
Elizabeth's Vineyard

Dry Red Table Wine
Cases produced: 56
Alcohol: 12.0%
Total sulfite addition: 35 ppm
Grape: Cabernet franc 80%, cabernet sauvignon 20%
Soil: Shallow loam over shale
Harvest: Cabernet franc - October 2, 2015, cabernet sauvignon - October 13, 2015
Bottled: November 29, 2016

ELEVAGE: Hand picked grapes were foot crushed, stems and all, and put into one-ton bins to ferment. The grapes received once daily punchdowns for about 2 weeks before being bucketed into the half-ton bladder press. Settled juice was pumped into a 600 liter stainless steel tank to finish fermentation which continued into September of 2016. In November the wine was racked off its lees and gravity bottled by hand without fining or filtration.

TASTING NOTE: 2015 Eminence Road - Hector - Elizabeth's Vineyard - On the nose raspberry and blackberry bramble, horse stable and stone. Fresh in the mouth with juicy fruit and fine grained tannin. Pair this wine with a tangy chevre, lamb chops, or steak.

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.



Cabernet franc on the vine at Elizabeth's Vineyard.


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