Happy New Year!

We rang in the New Year by drinking our 2019 Cabernet Franc. My husband made pork chops stuffed with spinach and gruyere cheese with a side of wild rice. It was the perfect compliment to the Cabernet Franc which surprisingly for me was between a medium and full bodied Cabernet Franc. It had enough fruit and the tannins had mellowed out with bottle ageing.

The wine was clear and dark purple in the glass and the aromas and flavors to me were like dark cherries. We consumed only half of the bottle and will taste it again and see how the wine evolves.
Here are the statistics for this Cabernet Franc:

Cabernet Franc	Harvest Date	Weight/ Lbs	Volume of Juice/ Gallons	Brix	pH	TA	%Alcohol
2019	10/26/2019	377	32	23.0	3.23	11.3 g/L	13.1

In the evening, just around the time that the clock rang in the New Year, Mother Nature provided us with her own fireworks, lightning and the loudest thunder! Wishing you all a very Happy New Year!