Mercer Canyons Red Blend

Winemaker’snotes a warm vintage provided ripe merlot and syrah with great concentration and dusty tannins. The resulting wine is bursting with ripe black cherry and plum with notes of caramel coffee and smoke. A balance of plush fruit and powdery tannins in the mid-palate lead into along lingering finish with notes of bing cherry and spice. Vineyardsourcing the fruit for this wine is grown at our acclaimed dead canyon vineyards in the horse heaven hills. The fruit is exposed to dappled sunlight allowing for uniform ripening and flavor development. Well balanced crop levels have allowed us to create wines with great depth and concentration. Growingseason 2015 was the hottest year on record and began with a moderate winter that lead in to a warm spring and very hot summer. The warm spring resulted in an early bloom which caused veraison to occur 2 – 3 weeks earlier than normal and began harvest 2 weeks a head of schedule. The heat wave finally tapered off at the end of august gi