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  • Country ranking ?

    491
  • Producer ranking ?

    39
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    now to 2035
  • Food Pairing

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The Story

We get caught up in the momentum of tasting and blending wines. Sometimes this leads to a blend of several varieties and sometimes we find pleasure in a single grape from a single vineyard.

Genevieve Janssens - Director of Winemaking

Momentum is a special, small lot wine that exemplifies the best of what a Napa Valley red blend can be.

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Wine Information

This notably cool vintage kept vineyard crews busy thinning shoots and leaves to increase sun exposure and encourage ripening. It also had the beneficial effect of extending “hangtime,” literally giving the clusters additional time for flavor development. September brought excellent harvest conditions, with an extra surge of heat at the end of the month that brought grapes to their full maturity. This Merlot was harvested on October 8th, a little later than average but before a late-October rainstorm. The most common themes for the vintage were low yields of small, flavorful berries and excellent flavor maturity at favorable, relatively-low sugar levels.

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Latest Pro-tasting notes

<10 tasting notes

Tasting note

color

Deep, Ruby red and Dark

ending

Long, Gentle and Round

flavors

Blackberry, Coffee, Toasty, Smoky, Cassis and Perfumed

nose

Youthful, Complex, Ripe and Rich

taste

Average in Acidity, Warming, High tannin, Multi-dimensional, Well-structured, Youthful, Full-bodied, Focused, Rich, Jammy and Drying tannins

Verdict

Well-rounded and Well made

Information

Origin

Oakville, Napa Valley

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Good

Investment potential

No Potential

Fake factory

None

Glass time

2h

Drinking temperature

16

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Inside Information

The Merlot grapes for this wine came from the Schweitzer Vineyard in the Stags Leap District, Napa Valley. This A.V.A. is renowned for wines with a purity of fruit expression and a fleshy, velvety mouthfeel.

Appellation: Napa Valley Grape Sourcing: 100% Stags Leap District

•WINEMAKING•

The grapes were hand harvested in the cool of the morning, gently crushed and inoculated for a warm fermentation setting the stage for maximum flavor extraction while keeping the tannins in check. 22 days of skin contact enhanced color and flavor extraction and polished the tannins for a lush, round mouthfeel. The new wine was transferred to French oak barrels (100% new) for malolactic fermentation and twenty seven months aging to develop greater roundness and depth. The wine was bottled in February, 2013.

CASES PRODUCED: 779 SUGGESTED RETAIL PRICE: $50.00

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