Cline Ancient Vines Mourvedre

''Ancient Vines Mourvedre offers distinct chocolate characteristics luscious deep plum and concentrated cherry. This scrumptious and unusually delightful wine has a substantial mouth-feel followed by soft tannins. VINEYARD The 2016 Ancient Vines Mourvedre draws from some of our oldest most historic and shyest-bearing vineyards. These blocks produces fruit of stunning concentration. We reach this concentration as a result of sensitive farming practices the singular Oakley terroir and a unique cooling band of air that flows in from the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers. By naturally restricting yields to only 2 to 3 tons per acre we are able to achieve a sublime expression of the Mourvedre fruit. These grapes hold characteristics of dark dusty berry fruit that makes our Ancient Vines Mourvedre so lustrous. PRODUCTION Individual lots of grapes were harvested separately according to ripeness and balance of acidity. Grapes underwent total de-stemming and a very gentle crushin