2020 Proprietor's Blend
Gallery Collection
Estate Grown &
Bottled
California, Shenandoah
Valley
Gold Medal: San
Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, 2024
Winemaker's Notes:
Proprietor's Blend was the very first red wine blend that I made in 2004 and
since then continued making it every year. This wine, which became one of the Gallery
Collection Club's most favorite wines, is released yearly in November. The components that go into this wine are
always the same while the composition may vary from year to year. Each
component is individually aged in French oak barrels for 2 years. We
create the blend about 6 months before bottling, after which the blended new
wine goes back into barrels for an additional aging in neutral barrels until
bottling.
This is an
elegant wine with a deep red color and rich dark fruit aromas which carry to
the palate. It is a full body wine with a
firm structure with well-balanced flavors and a long and sustained finish. It has intense dark fruit as well as earthy
and savory flavors with nuances of spice, coffee and cocoa. This is an age-worthy wine, good to drink now
or to stack it away for 10 years or longer.
Varietal Content
:
50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Syrah,
15% Cabernet Franc
Appellation: Estate
Grown, Shenandoah Valley, California
Bottling Date: June 1,
2023
Cases Produced: 162
Alcohol: 14.6%
pH: 3.65
Residual Sugar: Less than 0.1%
