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We bottled our 07 Magnafique last night. And it was MAG-NA-FIQUE! It is a very tasty blend with a higher amount of Merlot this year making it smooth with ripe fruit flavors. It has good complexity, structure and fruit from the cabernet and the malbec with a grippy finish from the 1% petit verdot. It may be our best Magnafique yet! Good thing, because we each have 6 cases of it! :P
We bottled about 72 gallons, 30 cases. We used Ray's new triple-bottler, and it went very fast. 1 hour 15 minutes! It was the largest single bottling to date and we had to blend into 2 different batches and then combine them as we bottled.
The blend ended up being
50% Wood River Merlot
40% Wood River Cabernet (Clone 8)
9% Wood River Malbec
1% Wood River Petit Verdot
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