Tasting Notes

Classically elegant. A unique wine where you find the full dark mulberry and cherry fruits cohabiting with the lighter raspberries and red currents. A whole wine, showing lovely, but not over-powering dark chocolate and caramel and firm tannic structure. Stunning on its own but especially good with lamb and mint sauce or a good veal concoction.

Winemaker Comments

When we were monitoring our barrels of the wine earmarked for the 2006 Calligraphy we came across some stunnning barrels of Cabernet Franc and Merlot from the grpaes that we had bought in from Altydgedacht. We believed these barrels deserved some special attention. At the same time we are also very aware that one can take the heart out of a wine (such as the Calligraphy) by not including these barrels in the standard production. Just 4 barrels of Merlot and 3 barrels of Cabernet Franc were earmarked. we added an additional barrel of Cabernet SAuvignon to fill out the mouthfeel to make just 200 cases of what we believe to be a very special wine. All wine came out of new barrels and this is the first time we at Nitida have bottled a wine that ws aged 100% in new wood. We have always insisted on making wines that show elegance above the brashness often exhibited by wines that have been such aged and it is an indication of the complexity of this wine that the wood is fully integrated in no way distracts from its elegance.