Palate
The finished wine is rich and ripe, with bright black fruit flavors of cherry and plum, a hint of warm herbs and plushy texture.
Growing Conditions
Our beautiful estate vineyard on Gehricke Road is the view you see from the tasting room windows – steep slopes striped with horizontal rows of grapevines ending at the edge of a dense mountain forest. Merlot gets nicely ripe here in the warm climate of Sonoma Valley.
Winemaking
We gave the wine 12 to 18 days of extended maceration on the skins to extract maximum color and flavor.
