This is the focus of the owner and winemaker's program. They make this wine unique to each vintage with the blend changing every year to reflect what Matt believes to be the best of that vintage. This wine is created to be elegant, balanced, complex, nuanced, aromatic and age-able. The owner and winemaker jokes that this is like a Chateauneuf Du Pape on steroids because of the Petite Sirah base.
This is a big, dense, chewy wine. The 3 “Black” grapes used for the wine each contribute their own unique piece to the complexity and depth.
Aromas of black raspberry, dark chocolate, tilled earth, tobacco, wintergreen and roasted coffee. Flavors of blackberry, blueberry, granite, licorice, violet and cocoa nib.
It's very food friendly, particularly with lamb, beef and mushrooms.
"Almost opaque in the glass, this blend of 61% Petite Sirah, 15% Tannat, 9% Syrah, 8% Grenache, 6% Petite Verdot and 1% Viognier offers deep violet and cassis aromas, but remains reserved. Elderberry and lavender flavors are spiced by cracked pepper on the palate. - MATT KETTMANN"
- Wine Enthusiast (May 2021), 91 pts
- Wine Enthusiast (November 2019), 91 pts
MCV Wines opened its doors in 2011 with the purchase of four and a half tons of some of the highest quality Petite Sirah to be found in the Paso ...
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