Product Description
A deep reddish-purple in color, this wine shows mocha, tasted almond, dried tobacco and blueberries on the nose. These give way to cigar box, chestnuts, leather, earth and a slight jasmine note on the palate with soft, elegant tannins, nice acid and a longfinish. This wine is a stylish and easy drinking Cabernet Sauvignon.
Balanced and complex, this wine is drinkable now, but should age nicely for another 10 or more years.
Perfect with light and delicate food such as steamed or grilled fish and chicken.
Clone: No clone, is a Monte Rosso field selection
Rootstock: 110R
Inoculated with MT and CSM yeast, and a native ML fermentation
Cooperage 100% French, 60% new. 21 months in barrel.
pH 3.58
TA 6.5 g/L
Alcohol 14.8%
Harvested: 10/27/06
Bottled: 2/14/08
Produced: 280 cases
Released: February 2010
The famed Monte Rosso Vineyard’s 250 acres are located 1300’ above sea level on the southwest side of the Mayacamas Range. The vineyard historically produces wines with high acid, due to the volcanic influence and the minerally Red Hill Loam soil.