2005 Reininger Carmenère
Walla Walla Valley
Technical Information
Vineyards
Seven Hills Vineyard
Blend
100% Carmenère
Cooperage
French Oak (33% new)
Bottled May 2007
pH 3.9
Total acidity 0.58 g/100ml
Cases Produced 146
Tasting Notes
Deep Purple meets Victoria Beckham —smoke and spice. Smo-oak on the wi-ine… Draped in thin leather haute couture and perfumed with peppercorn and dried herb, this girl is smooth – yet rocks! Big fruit — fig, black raspberry, dark cherry. Big spice that, when opened awhile, evolves toward eucalyptus with micro-mint. All this fruit and spice with an under layer of loam marks this wine with an Xahhtic.
– Chuck Reininger, Winemaker