Tablas Creek Vin de Paille 'Sacrerouge' Mourvedre Paso Robles California 2007 375ml

Tablas Creek Vin de Paille 'Sacrerouge' Mourvedre Paso Robles California 2007 375ml

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The 2007 Tablas Creek Vineyard Vin de Paille Sacrérouge is Tablas Creek’s fourth bottling of this non-traditional application (to red grapes) of an ancient Mediterranean technique for producing dessert wines. Ripe grape bunches are carefully laid down on straw-covered benches in our greenhouses, and allowed to dehydrate in the sun. When the grapes reach the desired concentration (usually in about 3 weeks) they are crushed by foot and fermented in small open-top fermenters using only native yeasts. When they reach their desired level of extraction, we press them and move the juice to oak barrels to continue fermenting until it reaches an alcohol level where the sweetness of the wine is in balance with its acids, tannins, and mineral characteristics.

TASTING NOTES

The 2007 Vin de Paille Sacrérouge has a sweet nose of dates, plums, and figs, with dark cherries, black plum, cassis and chocolate in the mouth. The finish is long with lingering fig, chocolate, and mineral notes.