2016 Aura
75% Cabernet Sauvignon | 25% Tempranillo
A limited production, small-batch vintage, 2016 Aura comes to you with its growing year reflected in its color, structure, and elegance.
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- Alcohol: 13.5%
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- Columbia Valley AVA
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- Single-vineyard
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- Nose: tart cherry, iron, and mineral
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- Palate: medium body, Bing cherry, cedar, roasted beets, and satiny texture.
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- Finish: elegant with cherry truffle and velvety tannins.
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- Drink now and over the next 5-10 years
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- Vineyard: Rock Flour Hill; family-owned/run; sustainable farming.
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- Winemaking: grapes crushed and destemmed into small bins; hand-punched down three times a day during fermentation; must pressed into 30-50% new French and American Oak after primary fermentation; remains in barrel 20-24 months where it undergoes malolactic fermentation and aging before bottling.
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- Price: $35