Nose

The nose of Northwest
marionberries, violets, and cocoa is loaded from attack to finish, aided by a glycerin weight and
supple texture.

Palate

Rich merlot dominates the young palate and compliments the cabernet franc’s
grip and fragrance. Youthful and accessible now, the intense fruit, balanced oak and tannin, will
allow this wine to age ten years or more.

Growing Conditions

This vintage is unique for its highest potential extract due to the smallest grape sizes we’ve
seen since Caleb started making wine in 1991. The yield was 20% less in the vineyard followed
by 20% less yield in gallons per ton. At Conner Lee we grow four pounds per plant or one and a
half bottles per plant—equivalent to Bordeaux First Growth harvest yields.

Harvest

Our fruit is always gravity transferred, we don’t
own a fruit pump. With our modern shaker tables, we hand sort and deliver whole grapes to the
fermenters. This allows us to preserve the natural abundant aromatics. The merlot from Conner Lee was harvested on September 28th measuring 27.0° brix
hydrometer, 3.6 pH, and 8.0 g/L organic acid as fresh fruit. The Conner Lee cabernet franc we
harvested on October 10th at 24.5° brix hydrometer, 3.5 pH, and 7.0 organic acids. The Champoux Vineyard cabernet franc
was fully mature September 25th measuring 26.5° brix hydrometer, pH 3.6, and 8.0 g/L organic
acid as fresh fruit.

Bottling

The wine was bottled
on January 13th, 2009.

Winemaking

The Conner Lee wine
was 16 days on skins, and then went directly to barrels, while Champoux wine fermented 18 days on skins before barrel aging. We aerated during fermentation in open-top tanks with unique proprietary air
tools, hand punched down and selected only free run wine to blend.

Aging

Traditional Taransaud
Chateau barrels were selected to match the wine with 60% of them new.