
2014 Syrah, Northridge Vineyard
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Wine Specs
Vintage
2014
Varietal
Syrah
Appellation
Wahluke Slope
Vineyard Designation
Northridge Vineyard
Acid
6.12 g/L
pH
3.68
Aging
Barrel aged 20 months in 65% new French Oak
Bottling Date
08/02/2016
Residual Sugar
0.01
Alcohol %
15.2
Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
Ripe fruit and plum on the mid palate with lavish pomegranate and cherry with hints of anise. Juicy, long rich tannins on the finish.
Vineyard Notes
Sourced from Milbrandt Vineyards’ award-winning Northridge Vineyard in Washington State’s
Wahluke Slope 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 barrels for 19 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: 302