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Wine Description
The Story
This selection of just three special barrels is named after my youngest English Springer Spaniel, Bonita, who loves to run up and down the rolling hill where these vines are planted. It is a selection of the See clone from a block that always gives us grapes with a very distinctive personality, so we decided to age and bole it separately.
The grapes derive from the organic Don Miguel Vineyard, which is named after the late patriarch of the...
Wine Information
Production: 72 cases
The Vinification
The grapes were harvested October 3, whole-cluster pressed and barrel fermented with our native proprietary yeast. We used 60% new premium French oak, medium-plus toast, coopered by Rousseau and Remond from the forest of Bertranges. After undergoing 100% malolactic fermentation, the wine was aged on its lees for ten months and boled, unfiltered, in August 2012.
Tasting Notes
This boling of ...
