TASTE BENCHMARKS |
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Profile #1
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Appearance |
Bright medium cranberry red. |
Aroma |
Extroverted red berry fruit and rose petal aromatics. |
Flavor |
Moderate tannis are soft and quaffable. Delicious and satisfying. |
Balance |
Bright acidity. |
PRODUCTION CORRELATIONS |
Viticultural |
Capable of large scale, economical precision viticulture similar to the factory farms of the Monterey AVA, resulting in rich wines which are quite affordable. |
Terroir |
Although this appellation has sunken river bed to its west which shelters vines from wind, this is reserved for red bordeaux style wines, and grenache is grown with the whites on the exposed alluvial fan to the east, owing their richness, ripeness and natural sweetness to its distance from the Pacific and its rocky subsoils. |