Pahlmeyer Proprietary Red 6 / Case

Vintage notes the 2013 growing season was ideal due to healthy vine stress brought on by drought conditions and nearly perfect weather throughout. This vintage will be one of the most heralded in pahlmeyer history as the wines are explosively delicious characterized by rich color delicate aromas silky mouthfeel and intense mouth-coating flavors. The aging potential is enormous and these wines are likely to delight generations to come. Winemaking notes proprietary red is a masterful blend of five bordeaux varietals crafted from 75 individually fermented lots. Each varietal was harvested and processed separately. Grape clusters were gravity-fed onto a vibrating table with two screens to sift out materials other than grapes while we removed by hand any fruit that did not pass visual inspection. After gentle destemming individual berries were then run through another hand-sorting pass to ensure only clean fruit was delivered into the fermenters. After five days of cold maceration