Red Bordeaux Blend 'Maximilien'

• Practicing Organic
• 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot
• 56% Estate grown, 44% from Argetsinger & adjoining Hoffman Vineyards (Seneca Lake)
• Eastern exposure, Honeoye loam soils at White Springs Vineyard
• Western exposure, clay/loam over shale stone soils at 16 Fall vineyard
• Howard gravel over limestone and steep sloping, western exposure at Argetsinger & Hoffman Vineyards
• Hand-harvested
• 100% destemmed into open-top, stainless steel fermenters
• 2.5-3-weeks skin-contact with manual punch-downs and pump-overs
• Spontaneous malolactic fermentation in barrels
• Aged 16 months in 80% French oak, 20% American oak (overall 15% new)
• 12.8% abv