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Scholium Project Winemaker's notes: The prize jewel of the 2005 harvest. This wine is perhaps less astonishing than the 2005 Cena, but it is much more beautiful, much more direct. It is our best Babylon yet; the clear culmination of our effort and learning in the vineyard- less wild and monstrous than the 2004, more precise and rigorous. We managed to grow the grapes in 2005 without irrigation, in the midst of a very vigorous cover crop, and the vines responded by thinning their own fruit. We had to witness the terrifying phenomenon of clusters spontaneously shriveling on the vine, day after day, as we waited for perfect ripeness in the vineyard. Not shriveling from heat, sun, drought-- this would have affected every cluster nearly evenly. Rather, one cluster among four or five or ten would suddenly stop ripening, begin to dimple, then lose all turgor, and within a few days, look like a dessicated corpse. It was not beautiful-- except that we knew that every remaining cluster would be stronger, perhaps had been stronger from the beginning-- that the vine had chosen for us, and had chosen according to the most exacting, and deeply hidden, criteria.
| Type | Red | | Varietal | Petite Sirah
| | Vintage | 2005 | | Bottle size | 750mL | | Alcohol content | 15.7% | | Appellation | California – North Coast - Suisun Valley
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Product #1183827
750mL
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