Corralillo Winemaker’s Blend
Tasting Notes
The wine is deep red and brilliant with violet tones. The nose highlights notes of red fruit, chocolate, and spice. The palate has a complete mid palate with smooth, rounded tannins. Each variety adds to the complexity in different ways: the Cabernet Franc contributes the structure and tannins; the Malbec lends floral notes; and the Syrah brings spice, violet notes, and wet earth.
Vintage Notes
The 2020 growing season was marked by early budbreak and flowering, frosts between September and November, heat waves throughout the summer and below average rainfall. Despite these challenges, wines of the 2020 vintage have more structure, concentration and an overall opulence of fruit character.
Winemaking
All of the components underwent a cool, 7-day maceration prior to alcoholic fermentation. A combination of specific winemaking techniques were used for each component in order to highlight the characteristics of each variety. Every lot aged for 18 months in French oak barrels from different barrel makers, forests, and toast levels. Finally, the blend came together using specific percentages of each of the lots in order to achieve a balanced and complex wine that expresses the terroir of the grape varieties during the growing season.
Technical Information
- Vintage:
- 2020
- Alcohol:
- 14%
- Region:
- San Antonio Valley
- RS:
- 1.6G/L
- Varietals:
- 45% Syrah, 40% Cabernet Franc, 15% Malbec
- PH:
- 3.44
- TA:
- 5.5G/L
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