2005 Peloton Red Wine (Library Wines) -- Tandem Winery Shopping Cart -- Wine Red Peloton 2005

<H1>2005 Peloton Red Wine -- Tandem Winery Shopping Cart</H1> $25.00 <IMG SRC="https://store.nexternal.com/tandem/images/05Peloton_Bottle.jpg" ALIGN=right ALT="2005 Peloton Red Wine" NAME="2005 Peloton Red Wine" BORDER=0 HSPACE=10> This is our no-holds-barred, pedal-to-the-metal, guns-blazing, full boogie tilt expression of what we would like to be not a varietal or regional expression, but the “winner of the first empty glass” contest! When you taste this wine, think not of a particular grape or appellation, think instead of how wine can love your mouth, how front-to-back pull through can be achieved with just a little bit of blending. When we create our single-vineyard designates, we look for the pure voice of the vineyard to speak its piece. The dips and the valleys can only add to the peak, the high notes of the vineyard. For a blend, we put under the microscope every pothole and dip in the road, and work to create a wine that, from first sip to last lingering aftertaste, provides pleasure and satisfaction, all wrapped up in one big Peloton! Tasting notes: This is a wine from a cool vintage and a fair amount of Mendocino old vines, both Carignane and Zin. The result is a racy, complex wine, with a moderate color presentation to the eye and a lot of zip on the fore-palate. Aromas are more towards red fruits, even strawberries, with hints of woodruff and smoke playing against delicate floral tones. The complexity continues from nose to mouth, with layers of fruit flavors up front again playing off the pine-duff structure towards the back end of the palate. With great acid and balance, this wine continues to open up over an evening of air. Technical Data: • Vineyards: From all across our wine portfolio in the North Coast, ranging from Southern Sonoma to the Redwood Valley in Mendocino County. • Varietal composition: o Carignane, amazing gnarled old vines (AGOV), Caballo Blanco Vineyard: 32%. One of the best old-vine, dry-farmed Carignane vineyards in the state, this vineyard is lovingly and organically tended by the Baltins family in Mendocino County. o Pinot noir, all of our vineyard designates: 20% o Chardonnay, all of our vineyard designates: 18% o o Syrah, from both the Gabrielli Vineyard in Mendocino and Silver Pines on Sonoma Mt: 15.6% o Zinfandel, all from the Aldine “Talmage Bench” old vines: 13% o Sangiovese, Masut Vineyard, Redwood Valley: less than 1%. We expect more good things from Jake Fetzer, who biodynamically farms this vineyard near the top of Black Mountain at nearly 2800’ altitude! o Gewurztraminer, Piner Creek Ranch (Russian River): Just enough to lift the edges of the aromatic envelope! o Pinot Meunier, o And for the grand finale - just a kiss of Pinot Meunier • Harvest: Mid-September to late October – spanning the entire breadth of harvest, first-to-last grapes! • Fermentation: a wild cacophony of techniques and critters, from wild to Brunello yeast selections. Secondary fermentation was completely spontaneous, like the wine… • Barrel aging: 16 months in French oak with only a kiss of new wood (about 8%). • Bottling: 2,115 cases of this enigmatic wine bottled in late Dec 2006 o pH/TA: 3.62/7.5 o 14.8% alcohol o Residual sugar: 0.18% (dry) o Appellation: North Coast (Sonoma and Mendocino Counties) <LI>SKU: T705RTWP Other products in the category <A HREF="http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Category5" TITLE="Library Wines">Library Wines</A>: <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product29 TITLE="2004 Ritchie Vineyard Chardonnay">2004 Ritchie Vineyard Chardonnay</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product46 TITLE="2004 Sangiacomo Pinot noir">2004 Sangiacomo Pinot noir</A> -- 94 POINTS - Pinot Report <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product51 TITLE="2005 Sangiacomo Chardonnay">2005 Sangiacomo Chardonnay</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product32 TITLE="2004 Hellenthal Pinot noir">2004 Hellenthal Pinot noir</A> -- Limited <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product33 TITLE="2004 Peloton Red Wine">2004 Peloton Red Wine</A> -- Limited <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product13 TITLE="2003 van der Kamp Pinot noir">2003 van der Kamp Pinot noir</A> -- 91 POINTS - The Wine Enthusiast <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product39 TITLE="2004 van der Kamp Pinot noir">2004 van der Kamp Pinot noir</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product65 TITLE="2005 van der Kamp Pinot noir">2005 van der Kamp Pinot noir</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product5 TITLE="2003 Keefer Ranch Pinot Noir, Green Valley">2003 Keefer Ranch Pinot Noir, Green Valley</A> -- ONE OF THE BEST PINOT NOIRS - Sunset Magazine <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product50 TITLE="2005 Chris Lee Pinot noir">2005 Chris Lee Pinot noir</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product54 TITLE="2005 Auction Block Pinot noir">2005 Auction Block Pinot noir</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product60 TITLE="2004 Gabrielli Sangiovese">2004 Gabrielli Sangiovese</A> <A HREF="http://www.nexternal.com/tandem" TITLE="Tandem Winery Products">Tandem Winery Products</A> <A HREF="http://www.tandemwinery.com">Tandem Winery</A> Tandem Winery <A HREF="http://www.nexternal.com" TITLE="ecommerce software">ecommerce software</A> powered by Nexternal