2021 Brecon Meritage
A wine so elegant, we just had to offer you a limerick:
There once was a wine called ‘Meritage’
Bordeaux blend so beautifully rich
Old vine complexity
Drinking so velvety
Add this to your cellar storage!
Every year, our Meritage blend differs which makes our wine lively, integrated, and organoleptically interesting. Like a mad scientist, mixing components, or a meticulous crockpot meal with various ingredients–our winemaker has done it again! Careful tannin management and oak integration has created a wine worth writing poetry for. (Sorry we employed an English grad!)
91 pts. Dr. Owen Bargreen, Mar 2024
Oops-a-daisy. Seems like our winemaking team was a little heavy handed with the Malbec this year. Missing the opportunity to put the wine in our new “fancy dancy” burnt earth label and call this a Single vineyard offering by a mere 3.3%. Of course those lucky enough to get some of our straight Malbec will immediately understand this was probably more like a savvy slight of the hand.
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Style Blend |
| Varietal Composition | 45.55%PVBre, 38.9%CSBre, 7.25%CFBre, 8.3%MBLav |
| Appellation | Paso Robles Adelaida |
| Acid | 0.57g/100ml |
| PH | 3.76 |
| Aging | Drink Now - 2038 |
| Residual Sugar | 0.05g/100ml |
| Alcohol | 14.80% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
| Bottling Date | 08/23/2023 |
| Cases Produced | 237 |
For over a decade now, we had been slowly progressing towards making the Brecon Meritage wholly from Estate fruit. Ie a single vineyard offering. To be fair, going forward, that is still the intention. Indeed we actually managed it in 2020, but stepped back from it in 2021. This is rather a matter of principle. Our constant wish to make the best wine possible and not blindly craft a single vineyard offering if it is not the absolute best possible blend.
