2020 Rogue's Lot
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We craft this wine to be enjoyable and social - all at the proper distancing these days - has no pretensions except for the pleasure it brings to your glass. Rogue's Lot, a Cabernet Franc-Cabernet Sauvignon blend, has lovely fruit flavours along with a smooth, gentle texture.
Wine Specs
Vintage
2020
Varietal
Cabernet Franc-Cabernet Sauvignon
Appellation
VQA Niagara Peninsula
Brix at Harvest
22.5
Residual Sweetness
14.8 g/L
Cases Made
4,075
Alcohol %
11.9
Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
Aromas of ripe raspberry and cherry with floral and spice notes. Flavours of fresh cherries and bramble berries with a light touch of oak mix with the slightest hint of sweetness.
Winemaker Notes
The fruit - Cabernet Franc generally first, followed by the Cabernet Sauvignon - arrives in several lots in the latter part of the harvest season. Some is crushed to small open-top bins where that are “punched down” manually to help extract more of the aromas, flavours and colour from the skins. The rest goes into red fermenting tanks where the “pump over” method of regularly wetting the skins produces a gentle extraction with few harsh elements. Following fermentation and pressing, the wine settles in tanks for a few weeks and is then transferred to mostly seasoned, older barrels which help soften the wine over the next few months before it is filtered and bottled.