2024 Eminence Road Farm Winery Cuvee Acidalia Dry Red, Seneca Lake, USA
$24.00
Dry Red Table Wine
101 Cases Produced
- Grape: 48% cabernet sauvignon, 28% cabernet franc, 24% merlot
- Alcohol: 12.2%
- Total added sulfite: 55 ppm
- Ingredients: Grapes, yeast, sulfite
- Hand harvested - October 3 (cabernet sauvignon)
- Crushed with 50% stem inclusion
- 24 days on skins
- Neutral French oak barrels for 11 months
- Unfined and unfiltered
- Farming: Conventional/sustainable
- Vineyard: various - Seneca Lake - Lodi - west facing
- Soil: Silt Loam over shale
TASTING NOTE: Blackberry, violets, tar and wet slate with a light, juicy middle and firm tannin throughout.
ELEVAGE: Grapes were crushed into a bins with fifty per cent stem inclusion and let to ferment with once daily punchdowns. After twenty-four days the grapes were pressed and settled juice was moved to old French oak barrels to complete fermentation, including full malolactic, which finished in early-summer 2025. In September the wine was racked off its lees and bottled without fining or filtration.
Specs
- Country United States
- Region New York
- Style Red Wine
- Producer Eminence Road Farm Winery
- Farming Practices Organic
- Grapes Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
- Food Pairings Gamey Meats, Pizza Night, Burgers, Braised Things
- Characteristics Wild Side, East Coast, New York, Black or Blue Fruit, Chillable Red