Jongleur 2017 COLUMBIA VALLEY

A Jongleur is an entertainer & juggler from The wine was aged in 100% French Oak the Middle Ages and metaphor for how the barrels (24% new) for 22 months prior to Isenhowers manage their winery and bottling. family. Tasting Harvest and Winemaking The Petit Verdot has an intense purple/ 2017 was a return to a “normal” vintage red hue. It has aromas of damp stones, from the extremely warm years of 2013- earth, black plums, blackberries, and 2016. The Summer and Fall were very forest undergrowth. The mouthfeel is pleasant in Washington with typical bold and intense with avors of black warm days and cool nights. Most of our plums, blackberries, minerals, and vineyards were harvested two weeks herbal notes. The tannins are plentiful later in 2017 verses 2016. Washington’s and long on the nish. A masculine style climate is remarkable for the excellent of Petit Verdot. vintages year to year.

We harvested 2.51 tons of Petit Verdot Thoughts on Petit Verdot from Dionysus Vineyard on September 27. Dionysus is the perfect location in Petit Verdot is a relatively rare Bordeaux Washington for this nicky vine. The variety of winegrape. The grapes tend to soils are poor and the vines have to work ripen late, have blistering acidity, and hard to thrive. The vine rows are most wineries use Petit Verdot for blend- oriented 22 degrees to the Southwest on ing into Cabernet Sauvignon or a steep slope above the Columbia River providing lots of light exposure from the Bordeaux blends to increase the color 100% Dionysus Vineyard Petit Verdot sun and reection o the river. Dionysus and acidity. Petit Verdot is an early ripening red grape because of the perfect vineyard There are few 100% Petit Verdot wines site. because it takes a terri c vineyard to ripen the Petit Verdot properly. The The hand-picked and destemmed copious amounts of sunlight and steep grapes were inoculated with a yeast slope at Dionysus elevates the ripe, speci c for Petit Verdot. After twenty masculine character of the Jongleur. days the grapes were pressed but only the free run wine was retained for the Jongleur. TECHNICAL INFORMATION

pH: 3.83 Titratable Acidity: 5.2 g/L Residual Sugar: 0.03 g/L Alcohol: 15.0% Volatile Acidity: 0.74 g/L isenhowercellars isenhowercellars isenhowervino 50 cases bottled Isenhower Cellars 3471 Pranger Road Walla Walla, Washington 99362 www.isenhowercellars.com [email protected]