Estate Red
⏳ Drikkevindue
Typically best enjoyed 5 to 15 years from the vintage release, allowing the robust tannins to soften and complex tertiary notes to emerge.
🍽️ Mad & Vin-match
grilled ribeye steak, roasted lamb chops, braised beef short ribs
✨ Tekniske specifikationer
The Fidelitas Estate Red is a profound expression of the winery's home turf on Red Mountain, Washington State's smallest and most distinctive appellation. Planted in 2009, the Estate Vineyard sits on a gentle, southwest-facing slope that basks in intense desert sunlight, tempered by the persistent, cooling winds sweeping through the Columbia Gap. This extreme terroir, characterized by low-nutrient gravelly soils and scarce rainfall, forces the vines to struggle, producing exceptionally small berries with thick skins. The resulting wine is a masterful Bordeaux-style blend that captures the raw power and structured elegance of Red Mountain. Crafted by winemaker Charlie Hoppes, the Estate Red undergoes meticulous fermentation and aging in predominantly French oak barrels, creating a wine of remarkable depth, dark fruit concentration, and a signature mineral-driven finish that reflects the ancient volcanic basalt underlying the vineyard.
🍾 Om vinhuset / producenten
Fidelitas blev grundlagt i 2000 af den erfarne vinmager Charlie Hoppes som et dedikeret håndværkshus med fokus på at udtrykke det unikke terroir i Washington States Red Mountain AVA. Tro mod sit latinske navn – troskab – arbejder vinhuset ud fra en kompromisløs filosofi om at forblive tro mod druesortens og vinmarkens autentiske karakter. Druerne høstes fra berømte parceller som Quintessence, Ciel du Cheval og deres egen Fidelitas Estate Vineyard, hvorefter vinfremstillingen sker i små, nøje kontrollerede partier med målrettet fadlagring på eg. Fidelitas er særligt anerkendt for sine kraftfulde, strukturerede og lagringsværdige rødvine på klassiske Bordeaux-sorter, herunder de roste enkeltmarks-Cabernet Sauvignons, Malbec samt husets signaturcuvée, Optu Red.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc