Morgado 2019 ‘Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard’ Red Wine

Description

THE VINEYARD:

Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard is located in the South Napa hills. It is a rockpile with full sun exposure and a soil profile that makes it a special site for premium wine grape growing. The farming company that tends this vineyard does a meticulous job of hand balancing each section of vines on this ranch, based on its row and slope orientations needs. The vines are given personal manicuring throughout the entire growing and ripening season and this detailed attention is reflected in the finished wines.

TASTING NOTES:

From the rocky exposed face of Sugarloaf Mountain, this marriage of Merlot and Cabernet Franc offers aromas of fresh from the oven German Chocolate cake (with a Bing cherry glaze). Heritage leather, bay leaf, and pipe tobacco wrap around a core of sundried cherries, persimmon, and end of season plum. Mouthwatering acidity carries the density of this wine and delivers the minerality and polished tannins from start to finish. While delicious upon release, this wine possesses a mystically restrained core that will reveal itself opulently over decades.