Nose
Potent aromas of blackcurrant, red cherry, roasted coffee beans, fresh tobacco leaves and forest floor underneath floral notes.
Palate
With a full palate of elegant tannins, the mouthfeel is long and full of red fruit and spices.
Bottling
Unfined-Unfiltered
Winemaking
24 days of skin contact (cold soak for three days to improve color, flavor and tannin extraction). 100% basket pressed. Malolactic Fermentation in barrels, with native bacteria.
Aging
20 months in 53% new French oak
Appearance
The 2013 Galerie Napa Valley Pleinair is deep purple.
