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. Most of the time the components that go into
this wine are the same, while the composition may vary from year to year. In
this vintage we used Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Syrah, the regular
components of this wine.
Each
component was individually produced aged in French oak barrels for 2 years. We
created the blend about 6 months before bottling. The newly created wine went back into neutral
barrels for an additional aging until bottling.
This is an
elegant wine with a deep red color and rich dark and intense fruit aromas,
which carry to the palate. It is a full
body, well balanced wine with a firm structure 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
: 55% Cabernet
Sauvignon, 25% Cabernet Franc and 20% Syrah.
Appellation: Estate
Grown, Shenandoah Valley, California
Bottling Date: July 20,
2026
Cases Produced: 90
Alcohol: 14.3%
pH: 3.74
Residual Sugar: Less than 0.1%