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2022 Petit Verdot
Tasting Notes
The 2022 Petit Verdot displays bold flavors of blackberry, plum, mocha, clove and pepper with deep color and bold finish.Winemaker Notes
Petit Verdot does indeed have Petit, small, berries. The 2022 vintage had particularly small berries due and intense flavor from the slow, steady ripening over the cool vintage. Smaller berries result in a higher skin to juice ratio; since skins are where the color, tannins, and dark fruit, spice and earth flavors in red wine come from, this wine was destined from the vineyard for intense flavors. Petit Verdot as a varietal is famous for displaying dark fruit in its simplest form but is accompanied by an intense spice and earth component in the best vintages. After a late-season October harvest, we fermented this wine on the skins for 3 weeks, including a cold soak and extended maceration, and the resulting wine is dark in color and flavor, with bold fine-grained tannins and acidity to match. We aged this wine on 40% new French and American. This wine is intensely complex and earthy with a long lingering finish.Awards
Silver; OC FairWine Profile
| Vintage | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Wine Style | Red Wine |
| Varietal | Petit Verdot |
| Appellation | Alta Mesa |
| Sugar | 25 Brix |
| Acid | 6.67 g/L total acidity |
| PH | 3.48 pH |
| Aging | 40% new French & Minnesota oak, 60% neutral oak for 20 months on full sur lies contact with monthly stirring. |
| Fermentation | 11 day fermentation with punch downs, 7 day extended maceration. |
| Alcohol % | 13.8 |
| Size | 750 ml |
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