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Wine Description
The Story
Each year, we choose only the most distinct small lots of fruit grown in the red rocky soil of our vineyard on Pritchard Hill, we choose just the best barrels and blend them together to create the new vintage of OVID. Napa Valley. The wine is a blend of the four Bordeaux varietals grown here: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Petit Verdot, varying in proportion from year-to-year but always eloquently conveying this special place.
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This natural predetermination was particularly potent in 2015, the seaso n that followed three years of drought in California. With naturally limited resources, Ovid’s vines produce d less than ha lf of our historical average. Though the vines produced FEWER BERRIES PER CLUSTER, cleverly they were BEAUTIFULLY LONG & LOOSE clusters–ideal for ensuring uniform ripening and exposure. A temperate summer gently ripened this fruit , extending harvest...