Eminence Road Farm Winery 'Hector" Red Blend

TASTING NOTE: Blackberry, raspberry leaf, wet stone, light, bright and juicy with grippy tannin.

ELEVAGE: Grapes were crushed into a bin with fifty per cent stem inclusion and let to ferment with once daily punchdowns. After seventeen days the grapes were pressed and settled juice was moved to old American oak to complete fermentation, including full malolactic, which finished in August of 2024. In September the wine was racked off its lees and bottled without fining or filtration.

MISCELLANEOUS: The last wine from this block. At the very bottom of Leidenfrost vineyard there were a few rows planted to cabernet franc and sauvignon. Spur pruned, full of weeds, gnarly 30-plus year-old vines growing right out of the rocks. The wine always tastes just like standing down there, somehow, and we cherished those grapes. Over the past few years the block has started to decline due to leafroll virus. The vines will be pushed out, the soil will have a rest and who knows what the future holds. This 2023 blend is our last vinous communication from these plants. Raised in the first two barrels we ever bought--way back in 2009--made of Pennsylvania white oak air seasoned for three years.