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James Judd & Son Vineyards
2006 Cabernet Sauvignon
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76% Cabernet Sauvignon
24% Petit Verdot
Paso Robles
San Miguel (Cabernet Sauvignon)
Shandon (Petit Verdot)
November 8, 2006 (Cabernet Sauvignon)
October 16, 2006 (Petit Verdot)
23.6°
13.9%
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0.67 g/100 ml
3.68
0.04 g/100 ml
December 9, 2008
928
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2006 featured a normal bud break following an unusually wet spring with significant rainfall continuing through June. A warm, pleasant summer with a blazing 10-day stretch of 100+ degree temperatures followed into mid-July. Harvest began slightly later than normal. Reinvigorated vines (salts leached from the soils from spring rains) and prudent thinning induced small clusters which produced lush wines.
Our grapes were harvested, destemmed and crushed into a stainless steel fermentor, and then inoculated twenty-four hours later with PDM yeast. The must was pumped over three times daily for fifteen days prior to pressing. After completion of malolactic fermentation, this wine was aged in a combination of American, French and Hungarian oak barrels for twenty-four months prior to bottling.
Intense aromas of black currant and olives with a whiff of sage complimented by a background of spicy oak.
Ready to be enjoyed today and will continue to improve in your cellar for another 4-7 years. Ideal drinking years will be 2009-2014.
Will compliment savory meat and poultry as well as chocolate desserts.
Silver: 2009 Monterey Wine Competition |
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