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Blending Seminar Winning Wine! Dam Fine Wine 2018 Lim­it­ed Quan­ti­ty Remain­ing Six Bot­tles — $139 ($119 Club) Shipped

The vote is in and Jamie Malesza edged out David Sail­er for the Dam Fine Red Wine­mak­er. The two blends were tast­ed blind­ly with the vote almost even­ly split. The final blend is 46% Caber­net Sauvi­gnon, 30% Bar­bera, 12% Tem­pranil­lo, and 12% Mal­bec. This wine is ready to enjoy today but will only improve over the next few years Notes from our winemaker: The key to craft­ing a great blend is bal­ance and har­mo­ny. Caber­net Sauvi­gnon builds the back­bone of this blend with vel­vety tan­nic struc­ture and strong weight. Next, the Bar­bera brings in bright red and black fruit with beau­ti­ful lin­ger­ing fla­vors of red cher­ry pie, plum crisp, and rich black­ber­ries. Hints of gin­ger­bread and toast­ed smores fol­low thanks to the Tem­pranil­lo. Final notes of blue­ber­ry and cocoa shine through with the addi­tion of Mal­bec. Even though this may be an easy drink­ing wine on its own, it is an excel­lent food wine and pairs won­der­ful­ly with rich meat and toma­to sauces, grilled skirt steak, roast­ed beet sal­ad, or even a juicy burg­er. JAMIE MALESZA, Winemaker