Hillside Winery Dickinson Vineyard Single Vineyard Merlot 2015

This stylish wine shows dark fruits, fine cocoa and pipe tobacco followed by silky fine-grained tannins. Hand harvested and sorted fruit from the 9 year old vines of Dickinson Vineyard. A record-setting summer resulted in intensely ripe fruit. The 8 day cold soak and controlled fermentation were followed by extended maceration – 25 days on skins, malolactic fermentation in oak and a total of 16 months barrel maturation in new (25%) and older French oak. Production: Only 174 cases made