2021 Sangiovese, Elephant Mountain Vineyard
2024 Seattle Wine Awards - Gold (90)
2024 Seattle Wine Awards - Gold (90)
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Wine Specs
Vintage
2021
Varietal
Sangiovese
Appellation
Rattlesnake Hills
Vineyard Designation
Elephant Mountain Vineyard
Acid
5.61 g/L
pH
3.7
Aging
Barrel aged for 20 months in 45% new French and European Oak and 55% Seasoned oak
Bottling Date
08/31/23
Residual Sugar
0.041%
Tannin
6.05
Alcohol %
14.8
Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
Red fruit aromas of cherry and boysenberry deliver to the palate, a fruitiness that leads into a rich jammy mid-palate with subtle acidity pulling the juiciness all the way to the finish.
Awards
Platinum, 2017 Wine Press Northwest Platinum Wine Competition; Gold, Best of Category, 2017 Northwest Wine Summit; Gold, 2017 Seattle Wine Awards; Gold, 2017 Cascadia Wine Competition
Vineyard Notes
Sourced from the award-winning Elephant Mountain Vineyard in Washington State’s Rattlesnake
Hills AVA.
Winemaker Notes
Throughout harvest, Winemaker Richard Batchelor worked closely with the grower and visited
the vineyard to taste for maturity and ripeness to determine the precise moment to pick the fruit.
Grapes were hand-harvested during the cool hours of the morning to preserve bright fruit notes.
This single vineyard lot underwent a five day pre-fermentation cold soak before the tank was
allowed to go through a native fermentation to dryness in about 21 days. Only the free run juice
was collected and no press fraction was used in the making of this wine. The lots were then aged
in French oak for 20 months. For the first year this wine was stirred in barrel on its lees and
racked when necessary to soften the tannins. After the first 12 months, the wine was racked off
the lees for clarity before bottling.
Production
Cases Produced: 287