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2019 Red Experiment B5.9 | Six-Bottle Collection
  • 2019 Red Experiment B5.9 | Six-Bottle Collection
2019 Red Experiment B5.9 | Six-Bottle Collection

Six-Bottle Collection 2019 Red Experiment B5.9

Experiment B5.9
$1,290.00
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The Experimental Story

Put simply, the extremely limited suite of wines that comprise our Experiment Series vary dramatically from year to year, each one a poetic answer to a new set of questions posed by the art of winemaking. While we call these ever-changing wines by the name Experiment, they might also be described as an ‘Investigation’ or ‘Exploration.’

Every new Experiment is but a small bite into a much larger fruit, but each one also tells us something new about our property, our grapes and about the larger subject of wine itself. Only the most compelling Experiments are bottled and released to our mailing list collectors. Many lessons gleaned from Experiment have in turn become new winery practice and informed successive vintages of an estate wine, such as Hexameter.

Tasting Notes

2019 Red Experiment B5.9

Note: From Block 5 at OVID

The 2019 Red Experiment B5.9 focuses on a singular block of the OVID estate. The spectacular vintage started with a wet winter, similar to the stunning 2010 and 2017 growing seasons. Full soil reservoirs and a cool start to the year pushed budbreak to mid-April, a little later than normal. Early June heat slowed the vines' growth and the shoots reached ideal length.

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Varietals

  • 64.36% Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 19.82% Cabernet Franc
  • 13.01% Merlot
  • 2.81% Petit Verdot

Methodology

We started picking in early October and finished the utterly superb 2019 vintage by the third week of the same month. In 2000, we planted Block 5 in extremely volcanic clay loam along the ridgeline of our property. The sparse resources defining this block always posed a challenge to experimentation. But, as if farming under a magnifying glass, this transparency taught us how to best farm the site.

In Conclusion

With a cooler than average vintage, the vines began their switch from growing shoots to focusing on the tender fruit. Veraison was quick with a warmer mid-August ensuring a rapid finish. Harvest saw foggy mornings and long, pleasant days, gracing us with a luxurious pace. The resulting 2019 Red Experiment B5.9 reveals incredible power and density inherent to this site, unfurling across the palate with beautifully burnished tannins - the joys of the many lessons learned captured in vibrant and radiant expression.