2015 Niner Fog Cater Bordeaux Blend - 93 Points

Winemaker Notes:
Heart Hill Vineyard produces dense, rich and complex wines that beg to be cellared while Bootjack Ranch fruit offers a compliment of elegant dark cherry flavors. Together the two sites provide ample room for our winemaking team to pick and choose their favorite Bordeaux lots to create this powerful, layered and structured flagship blend each year. We hand pick and ferment each block of our vineyards independently and after months of barrel aging we select the best barrels for our Fog Catcher blend. In 2015 a co-fermentation of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc formed the base of this formidable wine with all six other Bordeaux varietals bringing different elements of fruit, structure and spice. We composed the final blend and returned it to barrel as a single entity to age for a total of 29 months, achieving a layered flavor profile only achievable from this type of cohesive aging. This wine is built to age and will withstand years in the bottle. We encourage decanting for 4-5 hours prior to drinking which will elicit softer carnation, blackberry and vanilla bean flavors from the deeply hued wine.

Blend: 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Malbec, 22% Petit Verdot, 14% Cabernet Franc, 5% Carmenere, 5% Merlot

Package Value $120