2006 Toucan Wines Carignane

(Old Vines - Evangelho Vineyard)

ONLY AVAILABLE IN PREMIUM MIXED CASE

Harvested on September 19th from low-yielding 120 year old vines, grown in the Evangelho vineyard in Contra Costa County. Harvested at 25 Brix, this wine was slowly fermented after a period of cold soaking and pressed to a combination of French, Hungarian and American oak barrels. The wine was racked twice and a portion blended to our 2006 Toucan Cuvee, after a year in new and one-year old oak we felt the wine exhibited a great floral-berry nose and a forward dark-berry and fine oak taste, so on October 3rd 2007 we bottled 73 cases of this rare and fine wine. The resulting wine is a classic 100% varietal bottling from this outstanding old vine vineyard. This wine has a beautiful nose and an elegant and balanced mouth-feel - it’s drinking very nicely now, especially with food, and I expect this wine to improve with a year or two in the bottle.

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