Hedges Cms Red Columbia Valley

Tasting notes: aromas of cinnamon sweet plum and earthy pomegranate with hints of dried tobacco leaf vanilla and dark cocoa powder. On the palate are flavors of ripe raspberry milk chocolate and dried sage. Bright entry full juicy mid-palate and a graceful finish with apparent and pleasing tannins. A nicely balanced wine with enough acid and tannin to make this a more serious longer lived wine that will go well with full flavored food. Cellaring: the structure of this wine means it will be best with food now but should improve over the next two to seven years. Production: grapes come from the columbia valley vineyards: weinbau wooded island and sagemoor (all part of sagemoor farms) and goose ridge and the red mountain vineyards of hedges and jolet. Most of the wines were pumped over during alcoholic fermentation for 6 to 10 days. About 50% of the wine was racked to barrel where it completed malo-lactic fermentation and then aged for an additional 9 to 10 months. The other