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2021 Cadenza Vineyards Petit Verdot

 I can get very introspective when I think/taste/ponder our Petit Verdot.  Mind you, Petit Verdot is not--in and of itself--a very introspective wine.  In fact, it's quite the opposite.  Petit Verdot is like the loud American crashing a French dinner party.  Sure, you're curious about him--and there's something about his charisma--but ultimately he's still loud. Petit Verdot makes me think.  Deeply.  When I was a young winemaker, I tasted wines with Cabernet Sauvignon at their core--thanks, John!--and I was mesmerized.  It's not the same intoxicating infatuation one gets from Burgundy--Pinot Noir--but rather a synthesis of an analytic dialectic as it confronts the unquestionable mystery of sensorial apperception.   Years ago, when I asked my friend John--best intuitive winemaker I ever knew--how to compose the best wine he knew from this small place in Brogue, he responded with 75% Cabernet Sauvignon/15% Merlot/10% Cabernet Franc....and (if he allowed himself the lu

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