Wine Description:
This big and richly dark wine has a refined balance and an elegant nature. Fully ripe blueberries, black cherries, and dried currants are the forward flavors supported by characters of Italian roasted espresso, stoutly porters, and Mediterranean spices.
Food Recommendations:
Texas spice rubbed and grilled Porter-House steak, Potato Gnocchi pasta and tossed Mediterranean peasant salad and a dessert of fig and raspberry cobbler a la French vanilla mode.
Vintage Notes:
The 2007 season in Hyampom Valley of Trinity County California made well balanced, bright, and refined wines. Spring came in cold and continued to bloom. This coolness facilitated a naturally low yielding season in turn made more concentrated flavored wines than normal. Summer was mild and constantly even in temperature. Consistent with other seasons, 2007 Summer has warm to hot days and very cool nights which preserved the natural acids in the grapes and thus brightened the rich flavors of this vintage. Tannins of this year for the red wines turned out to be smoother than normal and less tannic which balanced out the elegance of our wines. Overall, 2007 was an excellent consistently smooth season which yielded concentrated well balanced wines which enabled us to continue our family legacy of making small lots of honest hand crafted wines that accentuates varietal characters.
Awards:
| Score 91 |
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2011 California State Fair |
| Silver Medal |
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2011 Los Angeles Internetional Wine and Spirits Competition |
| Silver Medal |
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2011 Grand Harvest Wine Competition |
| Bronze Medal |
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2010 World Wine Championships |
Enology:
| Grape Source |
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Hyampom Valley Ranch, Trinity County, CA |
| Aging |
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14 months in 50% French and 50% American oak (20% new oak) |
| Acid/pH |
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.60 / 3.58 |
| Harvest Brix |
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25.3 |
| Residual Sugar |
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0.2% |
| Alcohol Content |
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14.4% |
| Bottling Date |
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September 2009 |
| Production |
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1,500 Cases |
