BLUE BOOK TASTE PROFILE

Appellation: Temecula Valley
Varietal: Tempranillo | Valdepenas


TASTE BENCHMARKS
  Profile #1
Full-Flavored Exotic Style
Appearance Med red.
Aroma Violets, black cherry, black pepper, licorice, bay leaf, marmite.
Flavor Lemon juice, plum jam, dried blueberry. Moderate, well-formed tannins.
Balance Excellent balance, good energy, finely knit.
PRODUCTION CORRELATIONS
Terroir Well-drained, loamy soils with decomposed granite on the Valley floor at 1100 feet. Also some rockier spots at 2500 feet with some igneous influence, resulting in more minerally wines with harder tannins. Hot, rising Palm Desert air to the East daily pulls cooling air from the Pacific 18 miles West through the Rainbow Gap in the coastal mountains.