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This new vintage of Petit Verdot is absolutely delicious! We now know and are convinced of the great potential of Petit Verdot as a stand-alone grape here on the East End of Long Island. We have made Petit Verdot into a delicious red wine in the 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and now 2020 vintages and there is no doubt it is a star in our cellar. This tenth vintage proves it!
Petit Verdot is a black grape variety most often found in the red blends of the Medoc region of Bordeaux. Planted in small quantities around the world it is a small-berried, thick-skinned variety. Our 2020 version is comprised of 75% Petit Verdot (from the Mudd West Vineyard in Hallockville) and 25% Cabernet Sauvignon (from the original Mudd Vineyard in Southold on the North Fork). Those are special-old Cabernet vines planted back in 1974.
Our 2020 Petit Verdot is a dark, dry, spicy, deep ruby red wine full of black and blue fruit character. The wine is rich and delicious, very aromatic and almost too easy to drink. Purple flowers, minerals, blueberries, black currants, wet stone, wild blackberries, and brown spice are all there along with a touch of licorice or anise. So too is depth, purity and sex appeal. The wine is long, enticing, concentrated, textural, complex...simply, utterly delicious!
There is balance of fruit character, moderate alcohol, juicy acidity, ripe, grippy tannins and integrated oak. As with all our red wines this wine was made from hand-harvested fruit that was de-stemmed, fermented wild, stomped on by foot and punched down by hand. The wine was raised in all older/neutral oak barrels for 30 months.
This wine will match fantastically with prime rib, roast lamb and pork, grilled steaks, smoked bluefish, mushrooms, duck confit, squab and grain dishes.
Our 2020 Petit Verdot is really a baby still and while approachable and delectable now the wine will continue to improve in the bottle and reward for more than a decade.
PRO TIP: Buy a case and put at least three to six of those bottles away for a long time!
We only made 218 cases, so don't wait to secure some. It may not last that long!
