Aromas of Blackberry, chocolate, black pepper, coffee with slight additions of tobacco and black licorice. Velvety fine grain tannins grip you at the beginning and the mid-palate melts in your mouth. The wine has good concentration and excellent balance and integration throughout. The finish is firm and long with flavors of cocoa, berry and coffee.

Tribute was fermented with native yeast and went through natural malolactic fermentation in barrels during the winter and spring in our underground caves. Blended early in its history, Tribute was bottled in July of 2007 after 20 months in French oak barrels (35% new barrels) and bottled unfiltered. The wine was aged for one year in the bottle before release in May of 2008. Enjoy it now, decanting will add to its enjoyment, but it will continue to develop over the next 8 to 12 years. Tribute will age easily for 15 to 20 years under proper cellaring conditions.