Graziano Mendocino County Anniversary Red

The 100th Anniversary Wine celebrates the 100th year of the Graziano family growing grapes in Mendocino County. This
wine is grown in the old-vine Vincenzo Vineyard which was planted by Vincenzo Graziano in the late 1940’s. It is produced from old-vine head trained and dry farmed Carignane and Valdiguie grapes. Both varieties are historically grown in the south of France and Mendocino County is the largest grower of both of these varieties in the north coast of California.

The grapes were hand-harvested and crushed into small open-top fermenters for 16 days. The wine was aged in a combination of French and American oak barrels (20% new French) for 30 months to soften the tannins and added complexity to wine. This wine offers deep aromas and delicious flavors of ripe blackberries, violets, chocolate, toasty vanilla, tar and spice. This wine is rich, round, and displays rich tannins and good acidity which leads to long, lingering finish.