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A Cellar Full of Noise
2006 Barbera
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100% Barbera
Paso Robles
Shandon
25.4°
15.1%
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0.61 g/100 ml
3.51
0.06 g/100 ml
April 30, 2009
862
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2006 featured a normal bud break following an unusually wet spring with significant rainfall continuing through June. A warm, pleasant summer with a blazing 10-day stretch of 100+ degree temperatures followed into mid-July. Harvest began on a normal schedule. Reinvigorated vines (salts leached from the soils from spring rains) and prudent thinning induced small clusters which produced lush wines.
Our grapes were harvested, destemmed and crushed into a stainless fermentor, and then inoculated twenty-four hours later with PDM yeast. The must was pumped over three times daily for twelve days prior to pressing. After completion of malolactic fermentation, this wine was aged in a combination of American, French and Hungarian oak barrels for twenty-eight months prior to bottling.
Intense aromas of cherry and cassis with layers of rich tannins and piquant acidity complimented by a background of spicy oak .
Ready to be enjoyed today and will continue to improve in your cellar for another 3-6 years. Ideal drinking years will be 2010-2015.
Will compliment a large array of Mediterranean cuisine with a particular affinity for red, rich sauces, rack of lamp and pork tenderloin. |
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