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Wine Details
Price:
$40.00 per bottle
Description:
Mudd is a distinctive red blend whose varieties and proportions change with each vintage. We believe that the best red wines made here on Long Island are the products of careful viticulture, delicate handling and creative blending. Our 2003 “MUDD” is a dry, medium-bodied red wine made from 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Merlot and 2% Blaufrankisch. The Cabernet always comes from the Mudd Vineyard on the North Fork, which was planted in 1975 primarily on its own rootstock... The Merlot and Blaufrankisch come from our estate in Bridgehampton. All the fruit was hand-picked, de-stemmed, crushed by foot and punched down by hand. This wine was raised in eleven French oak barrels and one American oak barrel, ranging from new to four years old, for twenty one months. Racked minimally, this wine was bottled by gravity, unfined and unfiltered, and may throw a sediment. The wine is a deep ruby color and offers flavors of plums, black cherries, blackberries, lilacs, pepper, vanilla and roasted meats. The addition of Merlot and Blaufrankisch have really helped flesh out the mid-palate of the wine and as a result the “MUDD” 2003 offers a plump, supple, seamless drinking experience with a persistent finish. This wine will develop beautifully in the bottle, so is a good candidate for cellaring. The reason the wine is called “MUDD” is both a reference to David and Steve Mudd with whom we have a special relationship, and the name of their vineyard from where the Cabernet is grown. It is also a tribute to our local terroir, the earth, the mud that Mudd Vineyard and our Estate find home.
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