Kirkland Signature Wine Connection

Item 990177
Production: 2,730 cases

This Kirkland Signature Pauillac comes from the best

Bordeaux vineyards in the famed Pauillac region north of the city of Bordeaux. Pauillac is famous for the Grand Cru Classe wines of Chateau Lafite Rothschild, Chateau Latour and Chateau Mouton Rothschild. Pauillac is considered by many the top appellation of Bordeaux with perfect soil and growing conditions. Almost all vineyard land, 2,566 acres, of Pauillac is owned by the Classified Growths. 2003 vintage had a very warm summer in Bordeaux. At harvest the grapes were picked at extremely high sugar levels. The Kirkland Signature cabernet-based wine has ripe fruit along with soft velvety tannins.

Due to the intense heat of 2003 the very ripe grapes for this Kirkland Signature Pauillac were predominately handpicked. The grapes were de-stemmed to avoid any green vegetative notes, crushed and fermented in large cuvees as the skins were macerated in the juice to extract deep, dense color, and soft supple tannins. The fermented wine was racked off the coarse lees and matured in small French barrels for 16 to 18 months, bottled and allowed to mature longer in cold cellar conditions until release.

North

Sea UNITED KINGDOM NE TH.

English Channel

GERMANY BELGIUM

Champagne

Alsace

Loire

Burgundy SWITZ.

The Kirkland Signature Pauillac 2003 has deep, dark purple-black opaque shades, with a sweet bouquet of cedar box, tobacco leaf and earth. The flavor profile concentrates on the black fruit character of cassis and blackberry preserves with soft tannins from ripe fruit. Beautiful to drink now due to intense fruit concentration, it will hold and improve for 10 to 15 years or longer. D.C. Flynt, M. W.