Marine • Mushroom • Velvety
Best enjoyed at 55° - 60°f
Suggested drink window: now - 2029
Every season brings unique and bountiful options for our meritage blend. Beginning each blending season with this wine, the winemaking team will pull apart the cellar, encapsulating the vintage and each individual variety to form the perfect blend of cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc, and merlot.
Winemaking
• 54% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Cabernet Franc, 21% Merlot
• Vineyard locations: east and west sides of Seneca Lake
• Hand harvested October 14th - 28th
• Unfined & unfiltered
• Vegan
• Brix: 22.0°-22.5° • pH: 3.59 • TA: 6.9 g/L • RS: 0.0% • ABV: 13.0% • Bottled: 3/2/2023
• Cases produced: 400
2021 Tech Sheet
2021 Vintage Notes
Winter of 2021 gave us some surprisingly warm days and just enough snow to be protective when the temperatures dipped low. Early spring was lovely - sunny and mostly dry with undisturbed flowering and fruit set. Beginning in June, the summer rains arrived and persisted through August. Once into September and more so in October, we were blessed with warm and dry weather, allowing us to round out our harvest season in good conditions. The abundant moisture during the summer months resulted in a smaller crop but yielded very fruit-driven and expressive reds and sparkling and bright and refreshing whites and rosés.
