Featherstone Winery & Vineyard Featherstone Cabernet Franc 2007

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Niagara Escarpment, Canada
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Natalie's Score: 92/100 Community Score: 4.6/5 Community Reviews: 3 Add My Review Product #: 014 Wine Type: Red Wine Add to my...CellarFavouritesShopping ListWish ListWine Lists	Price: $18.95 Alcohol: 13% Drink: 2009-2014 Sweetness: Dry Bottle size: 750 ml Winery: Featherstone Winery Agent: Featherstone Winery

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Tasting note:

Loaded with rich dark berries and mocha aromas. A full-bodied, balanced palate gives way to dried tobacco leaves and blackberries on the finish. Gorgeous!

Reviewed December 1, 2009 by Natalie MacLean

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Featherstone 2007 Cabernet Franc Vineyard: Featherstone Vineyard, Twenty Mile Bench, Vineland Winemakers: Dave Johnson, Kevin Panagapka Soils: Heavy Clay Vine Density: 1200/Acre Planted: 1988 Rootstock: S04 Clone:327 Date Picked: 30th October 2007 Fruit Condition: Extremely Healthy Handling: Hand Picked into small 25 kg picking bins allowing the fruit to arrive at the winery’s sorting table intact. Fruit was hand sorted, crushed and destemmed. Fermentation: Fermented with commercial yeast strains ICV-GRE, BM-45 and wild yeast. Fermentation took place in small ½ tonne vats. Primary fermentation took 18 days in total. Pressed into barrel and inoculated with commercial malolactic bacteria. Bottling date: September 8th 2008 Total Production: 400 cases Wine analysis at bottling: pH 3.34 T.A 5.4g/L Alc. 13% alc./vol R.S <2 g/L Cellaring potential: 5-7 years Tasting notes: Shows deeper than normal colour. The nose is generous with toasty, charry oak, floral notes and raspberry fruit. Medium weight, sweetish and rounded on the palate, with very soft tannin. Considerable alcohol heat. Good to very good length.

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Serve this wine between 60-65 degrees Farenheit or 15-18 degrees Celsius.

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