2022 Cuvee Winona

Name: 2022 Cuvee Winona
Brand: Leaning Post Wines
Price: 29.2 CAD
Availability: InStock

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This blended wine always over-delivers massively for the price. From the hot and dry 2022 vintage, blackberry, cassis, raspberry and mulberry instantly steal the show, with mossy/bramble, graphite, inkwell and oregano following closely behind. On the palate, the fullness, weight and structure are impressive, with the sunshine of the vintage shining through. A lovely, mid-weight palate featuring plum and wild-strawberry is layered over coffee, tan-leather, cured meat and black olive fading in and out. The powerful but soft tannins make it satisfying to drink now with a good decant, but it will certainly age well over the next 5-8 years. Great with burgers, cured meat, and hard cheese.

The grapes were handpicked on October 20th (Merlot), and November 1st (Cabernet Franc). Each portion of the wine was vinified and aged separately. They were hand sorted, destemmed and placed into stainless steel open top tank (Merlot) and into a concrete tank (Cabernet Franc) for fermentation. After a 2-day cold soak the grapes began fermentation and underwent pump-overs twice a day for 4 weeks. After 4.5 weeks total on skins, each wine was gently pressed and racked into oak barrels (15% new) for aging where it remained for 14 months. It was blended when racked out of barrel, allowed to settle and bottled unfined and unfiltered in August 2024.

Blend: Merlot – 54%; Cabernet Franc – 46%

Appellation: Niagara Peninsula

Total Production: 620 cases

Average Brix at Harvest: 23.0

Acidity: 6.4 g/L

pH: 3.58

Alcohol: 13.0%