Qupe Central Coast Syrah 2007

BN#264239

$15.49 10% Mix/Match Case $13.94 SKU12515

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"Sourced from throughout the Central Coast, yielding consistent quality vintage-to-vintage. Qupe is medium-bodied, with notes of stewed black fruit and black pepper. The fruit balances nicely with the alcohol and minerality."
Steve Wernick - Wine Sales Associate

The wine is essentially a blend of cool-climate Santa Barbara grapes and warm-climate Paso Robles grapes. The cool-climate fruit gives spice, acidity and balanced alcohol while the warm-climate fruit give softness, roundness, ripeness and more up-front fruit flavors and aromas.

2007 was a fairly cool vintage, in general. The first grapes in this wine to ripen were from French Camp on September 5th, the last were grenache from the Sawyer Lindquist Vineyard on November 5th… that's two full months apart for anyone keeping track! All of the lots were fermented separately, and aged separately, at first, in mostly neutral French oak barrels (the percent of new barrels would be less than 3%). The majority of the blend was made at the first racking in March; the final blend was made before bottling in August 2008.