New Year Wine（此心安处是吾乡）

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New Year Wine

Vineyard Region : Ningxia & Shanxi

Grape Variety : 70% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Marselan.

Fermentation & Aging :

We have been working with “Carbonic Maceration” fermentation method for this special wine for over 10 years now using mainly Cabernet Sauvignon.
For this year, we changed the method of winemaking to a regular fermentation using a combination of 70% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon & 5% Marselan.
Zero sulfur was added throughout the winemaking. Only minimum added prior to bottling. No oak aging, to reflect the pure characteristic of the vineyards and varieties.

Alc : 14.5%vol

Tasting Note :

Soft spoken red to dark fruits note, plums & chocolate hint, slightly tart & spicy tone. Fruitful mid-palate, medium to full in texture with refined tannin. This wine has a similar primary fruit profile as the “Deep Blue” but with less complexity & intensity. Without the presence of oak influence makes this wine easier to approach and fruit focus.

In the cellar, we called this wine “Little Deep Blue”, as it was from the same vineyard and created using a similar blending proportion of Deep Blue, but with less skin time. Normally total skin time for Deep Blue wine is up to 25 days, for this wine, we cut it down to 15 days to have more fruit characteristics & easy to approach at a young age.
A rather pure vineyard reflection wine. Drinking well now but will certainly developed into a more refine characteristic over the next few years.

Hope you will enjoy this wine and happy Chinese New Year.

Chinese New Year is a special time for us at Grace Vineyard, as we contemplate the snowy vineyards surrounded by the warmth of family and friends. In celebration and thanks, we want to let our friends join us in tasting the new vintage, almost like an invitation to a movie preview.

Each new vintage will be accompanied by an ancient song or poem that holds a special meaning for us. Hopefully through these beautiful words, and a connection to the new vintage, we can connect to the history and present, celebrating this festive time of year.

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