2020 Old Goat

JUSTIN'S TASTING NOTES

• ON THE NOSE: BLACK CURRANTS & PENCIL LEAD
• ON THE PALATE: CHERRY, CHOCOLATE & DRIED HERBS

WINEMAKING NOTES

• VINEYARDS: 56% RED WILLOW & 33% ELEPHANT MOUNTAIN & 11% CIEL DU CHEVAL
• VARIETALS: 56% CABERNET SAUVIGNON  22% MERLOT  22% MALBEC  11% PEITIT VERDOT
• ELEVAGE: 19 MONTHS IN 89% NEW FRENCH OAK & 11% NEUTRAL FRENCH OAK. IT WAS THEN BLENDED AND AGED AN ADDITIONAL 10 MONTHS IN CONCRETE TANK
• CRITICS: 93 POINTS JAMES SUCKLING “Generously fruity and handsomely spicy, this full-bodied wine wraps melted tannins around indulgent dried cherry, sweet plum, cinnamon, and cedar flavors. It’s big, broad, and easy to sip. Drink now or hold.”
• BOTTLED UNFINED & UNFILTERED APRIL 2022

The Old Goat is the best blend I can build out of the sites and varieties that showed their best for a particular vintage. The composition will not always be the same every year but it will instead change and move with that vintage. This vintage I moved away from Cabernet Sauvignon and to a more Bordeaux blend. Grapes were hand harvested and destemmed and crushed leaving ~20% whole berries. No pump was used in the transfer of the must. The must cold soaked for approximately 72 hours at about 12^oC. Native yeast began fermenting after about 48 hours. Bottled unfined and unfiltered in April, 2022