![]() The must is pressed on each lot when we feel we have hit a mouth feel and flavor profile we sought after. The wines are fermented in Micro-Lots, primarily 1 ton open top bins. Cluster and berry sorting occurs on each lot at destemming and we typically ferment most reds whole berry. When the fruit arrives at the winery, it is gently handled all the way through production. Optimal ripeness to us is not a numbers driven decision, it is about flavor. We harvest each block by hand when it hits optimal ripeness. This includes chute thinning and fruit dropping throughout the growing season. Flavor development starts in the vineyard, and we do everything we can to reduce vigor early on and limit our yields. See the next page for more details.įrom the time the vines are pruned for the growing season to the day the wine is released, no detail goes unnoticed. We have some awesome events planned between now and the release that are available exclusively to you, our valued club members. ![]() The official release is scheduled for July 2nd. We invite you to join in the celebration of Five Years of Supremacy. It is as bold and straight forward as our mission: crafting the perfect wine from Livermore Valley’s best vineyards and its sleek, sophisticated profile is a sign of what to expect in the bottle. In celebration of this new direction we are excited to reveal our new label for Supremacy. This wine is a benchmark of not only our humble roots, but a nod to the future direction of our Supremacy program.Īfter five years we have enhanced our vision of the wines we strive to produce. Each site produced beautiful wines, representing their soils and locale to their fullest potential. It was our best vintage across the board. ![]() With the 2012 vintage we felt our understanding of this Valley as a whole, as well as its individual vineyards’ distinctions, coupled with one of California’s best winegrowing seasons allowed us our best chance yet at crafting perfect wine. We continue to trial new barrels, yeasts, fermentation methods, cellaring methods anything we can do to get a leg up and improve. In the winery we have established regimens that we feel best extract and capture the distinctions of these vineyards. As we hone in on these benchmark vineyards’ distinctions and work with our growing partners to improve quality, we continue to trial new vineyards, opening up more and more possibilities and in the process spreading our breadth of available blending components. We have made tremendous strides in viticulture efforts to provide us the best possible raw materials. With each vintage comes a better understanding of what different vineyards bring to the table as far as aromatics, color, flavor profile and texture. In this case, we are talking about the Five Noble Bordeaux varieties grown here in the Livermore Valley. By perfect, we mean expressive of both the varietal make up and the region in which it is grown. Since harvest 2008, we have been on a mission to find the best Bordeaux vineyards in the Livermore Valley with one goal in mind: crafting the perfect wine.
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