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    308
  • Producer ranking ?

    3
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    now to 2035
  • Food Pairing

    Grilled Wagyu Beef Entrecôte with garlic potatos

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The Story

This wine made its debut in 1988 by winemaker/designer Mitch Cosentino. This is the third vintage of M. Coz that has been made under Cosentino's PureCru brand since 2009. It continues the tradition of only being bottled in extremely limited quantities when it is equal or superior to the greatest wines in the world made with Bordeaux red grape varietals.

Prior to release, this wine has already won a major wine competition, Gold Medal, Best of Class award, as has virtually every previous vintage.

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Wine Information

Blend: 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Cabernet Franc, 18% Merlot, 9% Petit Verdot

Ageing: 39 months in French oak barrels

Production: Less than 200 cases

Style: An intense and focused Bordeaux styled Meritage with a heritage going back to the original 1988 vintage. Aromas of currants, berries, plum, and spices abound. Rich and full on the well textured palate that shows balance, power and elegance. Overall it unfolds throughout to a long satisfying finish.

Winemaking: Each lot was punched cap fermented and finished in barrel where it was aged for 34 months unracked. Then the blend was made into tank and left to evolve for two months then bottled unfined.

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Vintage 2013

Napa Valley Harvest 2013 Report

A seamless year of steady weather and optimal ripening brings in above average yields and excellent quality fine wine grapes

10/22/2013 - St. Helena, CA: The Napa Valley Vintners (NVV) reports that the region’s winemakers expect to be done with the 2013 harvest within the next week. “Early, even and excellent” are three words being used to describe this year’s growing season and the Napa Valley wine grapes that have come from it, reflecting the consistent quality for which this world famous wine region is known.


A warm, dry spring brought early bud break, helped with canopy vigor and berry size and created ideal conditions for flowering and fruit set under sunny skies. With the exception of one heat spike in late June/early July, temperatures were consistently in the zone for optimal vine activity, resulting in notably healthy vines as fruit went through veraison and started ripening. 

The August 1 start of harvest was the earliest in recent history. White wine grapes came in at a furious pace throughout that month, moving on to lighter reds by early September. Two brief mid-September rains had virtually no impact on the grapes. The vast majority of the more delicate skinned grapes had already been harvested and sunny weather with breezes followed the rains, allowing for the mostly Cabernet Sauvignon that remained to dry out almost immediately. The cooler, sunny weather throughout October allowed the final grapes still on the vine to linger longer, developing more phenolic and flavor maturities with sugar levels remaining steady. 

As this harvest comes to a close, it is about two weeks earlier than other Napa Valley harvests in the last decade. Yields on the whole have been above average.

“In a nutshell, this vintage has given us the extraordinary gift of enabling us to pick exactly what we wanted, when we wanted, at perfect ripeness and ideal hang time,” noted Paul Colantuoni, winemaker at Rocca Family Vineyards.

Winemakers from around the valley agree the 2013 vintage holds exceptional promise and potential and exceeded expectations following on the heels of 2012 – another year that has been described as “nearly perfect.” 

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Dark, intense ruby colour. Complex nose with loads of flavours from jammed plums and dark cherries, raisiny spicy aromas on the second nose. Full-bodied, intense, fresh and crisp palate with ripe cherry fruit, smoky tannins, vanilla and long refined mouthpuckering spicy finish. A great wine with full of soul!

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Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Very good

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