2007 Hightower Cellars Pepper Bridge Red

The grapes for this wine were handpicked and handsorted to ensure that only the best grapes were used. We fermented the fruit in small open-top containers no taller than they are wide to extract greater flavor and color by having more juice in contact with the grape skins. After gently pressing the wine from the skins the wine aged in small oak barrels for twenty months. During barrel aging we gravity racked the wine off its lees with a siphon. Separate lots were blended and bottled in the summer of 2009. We produced 199 cases.

• 75% Merlot Pepper Bridge Vineyard
• 25% Cabernet Sauvignon Pepper Bridge Vineyard