Nose

Black cherry, raspberry, black pepper, pencil shavings, menthol, blackberry, fresh herbs.

Palate

Well structured, rich dark fruit with accents of toasted, spicy aromas. The palate is smooth with elegant tannins.

Harvest

The Cuvée Classique is made to accentuate the fruit, or in other words, the pulp. The grapes are picked fairly early without waiting for the skins to reach full ripeness.

Winemaking

The next stage is a cold maceration to extract color without extracting the tannins. After this short maceration period of a week to ten days the wine is separated from the skins. Fermentation is then carefully controlled to avoid any oxidation (beneficial to some extent for the tannins but detrimental to the fruit).

Appearance

Deep ruby.

Food Pairing

Red or smoked meats.