Leah Jørgensen Cellars Southern Oregon Cabernet Franc 2019
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Leah Jørgensen Cellars Southern Oregon Cabernet Franc 2019
WINEMAKER TASTING NOTES
This wine opens with lovely perfumed notes – expressive, fresh, bright, vibrant – always with intense floral aromas – rose petals, hibiscus, violets, carnations – as well as sweet fruit and aromatic spice. The sweet fruit aromas offer a nice concentration of ripe cherries, cassis, brambles, and blackberries. A classic woodsy spectrum of cherry tobacco, cigar box, sweet birch bark, and the distinctive spicy-citrus aroma of black walnut leaves is followed by spicy, earthy notes of cloves, anise, eucalyptus, musk, and mushroom. Subtle smoked meat and grilled stone fruit add to the complexity. On the palate, this is a dry wine with ripe fruit flavors of black cherries, black currants, Italian plums and grilled peach, then meanders to sweet cherry tobacco, anise, clove and black pepper, with its typical savory element of roasted pepper. It’s rich with firm tannins on the finish, yet elegant and balanced – this wine will age gracefully.
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WINEMAKING
The Crater View lot was harvested on October 8th (more than a week later than the previous vintage) at 23 brix and the Sundown lot was also picked on the 8th at 22.8 brix. Each lot was hand sorted, de-stemmed, and lightly crushed (half whole berry, half crushed), followed by a four day cold soak. Fermentation commenced at 55° F so as to have a slow, steady fermentation, with manual punch downs twice daily. The wine was aged in neutral French oak barrels, along with some stainless steel, to tone down the intensity from the skin and wood tannins. A slow, steady malo-lactic fermentation completed in three months. The wine was racked, blended, then filtered prior to sterile bottling.
Pair with barbecue (especially dry rubbed ribs), bistro favorites like roast chicken and steak frites, and other meats like lamb, duck, or beef filet with aromatic herbs; pasta with tomato based sauces; pizza; vegetable dishes – especially with broccolini and mushrooms; Mediterranean foods (Greek, Italian, Middle Eastern); cheese (blue, camembert, gorgonzola, aged or smoked cheddar, gouda, wensleydale). Cab Franc, in general, pairs perfectly with anything prepared over fire (pan seared, smoked, grilled, pizza oven, etc.).
Appellation: Southern Oregon
Vineyards: Crater View Ranch
Sundown Vineyard
Production: 239 cases
Bottled: July 15, 2019
Released: April 2021
Alcohol: 14%
pH: 3.53
| Weight | 4 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 4 × 4 × 12 in |
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