Featherstone Winery & Vineyard Featherstone Vineyard Cabernet Franc 2009

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Niagara Escarpment, Ontario, Canada
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Natalie's Score: 90/100 Community Score: 4.5/5 Community Reviews: 3 Add My Review Product #: 874345000113 Wine Type: Red Wine Add to my...CellarFavouritesShopping ListWish ListWine Lists	Price: $16.95 Alcohol: 12.3% Drink: 2011-2014 Sweetness: Dry Bottle size: 750 ml Winery: Featherstone Winery

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Tasting note:

One of Canada's best cabernet francs, and consistently great year after year. Juicy, chewy and savoury, this full-bodied red offers ruch aromas of black fruit and smoke. Yum!

Reviewed January 3, 2012 by Natalie MacLean

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Soils: Clay, Loam Planted: 1988 Rootstock: Unknown Vine Density: 1200/Acre Date Picked: November 20th 2009 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 de-stemmed. Fermentation: Fermented with wild yeast strains. Fermentation took place in small ½ tonne vats. Primary fermentation took 17 days in total, wine left on skins for 21 days total. Pressed into barrel and inoculated with commercial malolactic bacteria Bottling date: September 10th 2010 Total Production: 485 cases Wine analysis at bottling: pH3.57 T.A 6.9g/L Alc. 12.3%alc/vol R.S 2 g/L

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

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