ESTATE-GROWN, SUSTAINABLY-FARMED, FIELD-BLEND Magnum-fy your Alegría! Sonoma County Barrel Auction Lot

® 2018 AXIOM® 2018 ALEGRÍA Heritage Vines™ RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY ALEGRÍA VINEYARDS RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY

Harvest Date October 12, 2018 Dates September. 26, 2018 Brix 25˚ Brix 26.6˚ Barrel Aging 16 months Barrel Aging 16 months Type of 72% French (36% new) Type of Oak 70% French (34% new) 28% Hungarian (9% new) 30% American Bottled March 26, 2020 Bottled March 26, 2020 Case Production 310 Case Production 295 14.2% Alcohol 14.7% pH 4.2 pH 4.05 T.A. 5.57g/L T.A. 5.87g/L

Field Blend Composition Field Blend Composition Our Syrah , planted in1991, is three clones Our old Zinfandel vineyard—which dates back to 1890—reflects (Chapoutier, McDowell, and Australian) of Syrah inter-planted the pre-Prohibition practice of field blending. 78% Zinfandel, with Viognier and co-fermented as in Côte Rôtie. 11% , 9% Petite Sirah, remaining 2% includes 97% Syrah and 3% Viognier. Carignane, Trousseau, , Petit Bouschet, Negrette Plavac Mali, Syrah, Tannat, Muscat Noir, Peloursin, , Béclan, , , , and Monbadon.

3/20 Tasting Notes: 3/20 Tasting Notes: Enticing aromatics of juicy wild blackberry and dark Delightful aromas of fresh-picked berries and black cherry chocolate laced with hints of smoky oak. Flavors of dark sprinkled with freshly ground pepper. The plush entry cherry, plum, huckleberry, and brambly blackberry merge envelopes the palate with juicy black raspberry laced with with traces of bittersweet chocolate, creamy coffee, and hints of spicy pepper, cocoa, and dark roast coffee. Bright cracked black pepper. Fine-grained tannins and a solid acidity mid-palate expands the flavors as they flow into a structure support the plush flavors. Drinkable now, this lingering finish. The tannic-oak structure tightly frames the Syrah will continue to evolve with bottle aging. for now, but will soften with bottle aging.

2/19/21