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KATHY’S CORNER
What an amazing year in Oregon! A long
growing season with warm days and cool nights
led to “Indian Summer” during
a harvest with little rain; all of which
resulted in an almost unprecedented leisurely
pace. And the wine! It’s
complex, spicy, silky, dark, intriguing,
aromatic, seductive, delicious...in a word,
superb! 2002 is being lauded as one of the
all time great vintages in Oregon, but that’s
just one part of what makes our single vineyard
designated 2002 Elton so sublime.
The attention and care to this mature
60-acre vineyard by owners Dick and Betty
O’Brien is the reason I love it so
much, and why Wine & Spirits Magazine
named it “one of Oregon’s top
vineyards.” Enjoy this very limited,
single barrel release, and “taste
the place that is Elton!”
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THE VINEYARD
& THE VINTAGE
• The Elton Vineyard
has always been a Fiddlehead favorite, not
only because of the quality of the fruit,
but also because of the dedication and care
provided by owners Betty and Dick O’Brien.
Their joint passion to produce the highest
quality grapes, our by-the-acre farming
requirements and an exceptional vintage
combine to warrant this single vineyard
designated
bottling.
• Fiddlehead’s
designated block is from the oldest part
of the vineyard, planted in 1983. The combination
of vine age, Jory clay-loam soils on south-eastern
slopes and the cool Eola Hills climate is
an equation that can’t be beat.
• Considered by many
to be one of the all time great vintages
in Oregon. Warm sunny days, cool to cold
nights and dry days during harvest produced
perfectly ripe and balanced fruit.
THE
WINE
•
Handmade from start to finish with individual
attention paid to each perfect cluster.
• Picked:
October 14-October 20, 2002
• Aged
in 100% tight-grain French oak, 40% new,
for one
year.
• Opulent
aromatics jump out of the glass. Extraordinary
balance and pure flavors of concentrated
blueberry, blackberry and raspberry crisp.,
and a silky, enticing texture that glides
around the palate. Spicy notes of allspice
and cedar linger and linger.
• A
one-barrel selection. Just 25 cases produced!
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