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Wine Description
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.
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 lit...
