Maison Noir “In Sheep’s Clothing” 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon

Description

WINEMAKER NOTES:

Founded by sommelier André Hueston Mack in 2007, Maison Noir’s wines are unique and distinctive garage wines, initially created for some of the New York’s best restaurants for whom Mack was a sommelier, and now available nationwide. Throughout his career Mack has forged uniquerelationships with luminary growers and winemakers from around the planet. It is with this prestigious group that Mack currently creates his wines.

After fermentation the wine spends 10 months aging in barrel, 25% of which is new French oak. The name is a hat tip to Alonzo Harris: “to protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf.”

TASTING NOTES:

In Sheep’s Clothing delivers a ripeness of fruit flavors while preserving the acidity that gives the medium to full-bodied wine a sense of freshness. With layers of cassis, blueberries, and black cherries, this wine lends to a New World style of fruit with more of an Old World structure with a hint of wood smoke. This wine fully embraces an integral part of classic Cabernet Sauvignon by highlighting a complex blend of dried herbs: anise, thyme and bay leaf.

VARIETALS:

Cabernet Sauvignon

APPELLATION:

Columbia Valley , Washington – 60% fruit from the Red Mountain AVA and 40% fruit from the Wahluke Slope.

PRODUCTION:

2,500 Cases