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Empire

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Description: Empire is the first New York state super-blend. This wine is 33% Merlot from Long Island, 33% Cabernet Franc from the Finger Lakes, and 33% Baco Noir from the Hudson Valley. Unfiltered, and un fined, the wines are blended, and then aged in three separate lots – French oak, American oak, and stainless steel. When the wine is almost 2 years old, they are belnded, and then bottled, and aged for another 4-6 months before release. The result is an incredibly complex wine, filled with multiple layers of cherry, cranberry, raspberry, cassis, vanilla, orange pekoe tea, and fallen leaves. Can drink now or in five-to-ten years. As written about as any of our wines, this wine has been appeared in Dowd on Drinks, New York Cork Report, Hudson Valley Table, Albany Union Times, Democrat Chronicle, Hudson Valley Wine Goddess, and many others.




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