Turning Point - Red Blend 2020 (750ml) Bourbon Barrel Aged

Turning Point - Red Blend 2020 (750ml) Bourbon Barrel AgedThis wine has a vibrant, dark purple hue. The nose shows gorgeous red cherry and blueberry aromas with background spice. Soft red fruit characters, accented by black tea flavors, make the mouth immediately pleasing. Tannins are round and soft with an excellent acid to balance. It finishes with long and supple tannins.

with a textural attack

while the remaining 80%

raspberry and orange blossom aromas follow through to a medium body

Floods of fruit on the nose

The blend is 95% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Cabernet Franc

At Ryder Estate

it was described at all—because a significant proportion of its production was bottled under the labels of the multiple domaines it owned: Domaine Long-Depaquit in Chablis

minerally finish echoes smoke and oyster shell notes

Cabernet Sauvignon’s cassis and Malbec’s prune adorned with a sumptuous toastiness which is the result of a 14 month tenure in oak barrels

The bottles are disgorged by hand one year before marketing

hand sorted then slowly pressed before fermentation in their stainless-steel tanks

Being organic means there are humans in the vines every day – to weed manually so as not to use weedkiller and to perform leaf thinning to give the grapes optimum exposure when needed