2017 Matthiasson Napa Valley Red California, USA Tanca Nica NOTES: The non-dosage vintage bottling

NOTES: The non-dosage vintage bottling of Terre de Vertus is always a vintage-dated bottling and is produced from two top vineyards in the village of Vertus: Les Barillers and Les Faucherets

capable of aging for twenty years or more

It fermented with 55% full clusters and had a 20-day maceration

and it's hard to imagine such vibrant acidity and eloquently expressive tannins coming from any other address in Burgenland

It emerges from the Chuy Vineyard (now Midslope) originally planted with Chardonnay on St

2017 Matthiasson Napa Valley Red California, USA Tanca Nica NOTES: The non-dosage vintage bottlingThe Red Hen Merlot Vineyard, along Dry Creek, at the very top of the creeks alluvial fan, is a warm site withvery light and thin soils, composed of a foot of silty loam sitting on top of at least 20 feet of pure cobble. The vines are naturally small berried and early ripening. The stress results in extremely low yields, barely making over a ton per acre of intense and concentrated fruit. In the 1950s through the 1970s, this block produced the top