Winemaker Notes:
A very well-balanced wine of many layers offering some soft
elegant notes of fresh berries, apple, pear, cherry and currants. These nuances continue with an old-world earthiness
with a touch of olives and succulent plants.
Then comes a smoky minerality that blends well with the cocoa, creamy
vanilla and bright tannins. The oak is
well integrated into all the various layers of the wine and adds a nice component
to the long finish. This wine should age
well over the next few years or can be enjoyed now.
Vintage:
2018 started out with very cold temperatures in January and
continued throughout most of the winter.
The cold weather was followed by an unusually wet spring. Some rains coming when the vines were beginning
to flower, an important process in the grape development and a time when heavy
rains are not wanted. The summer was consistently
hot and humid with the humidity never seeming to abate. The fall started out with drier conditions allowing
for some good grape development and then towards the mid and later part of the
fall the rains returned. Overall a hot,
humid and wet vintage that Mother Nature throws at us occasionally to test the
fortitude of the growers and winemakers.
Blend
100% Petit Verdot
Harvest
The Petit Verdot was harvested on 14 September 2018 at 23.3
Brix, 3.63 pH and 5.95g/L TA
Vineyard Source:
Wessex Hundred, Williamsburg, VA
Fermentation
The Petit Verdot was cold soaked for 3 days then fermented for
7 days in stainless steel with D254 Yeast.
Aging
13 Months in new and one-year old French and Hungarian oak
Bottling Date
07 January 2020
Release Date
February 2020
Technical
Information
12.5% Alc
3.88 pH
6.36g/L TA
0.45 RS (dry)
