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The Prince's History
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The paradigmatic Scholium wine is The Prince in his Caves. It is the wine that has won us the most attention, and, I think, the most friends. It surprises, but it also charms and delights. To make this wine, we use very old techniques, uncommon in America when we began to investigate them; and the wine was born from an unforeseen (and unwanted) microbiological development int the vineyard. Both of these are at the heart of the way that we work.
I have tried to hold back a few cases of this wine in every year to track its maturation. Our sense is that each vintage is still improving and that no wine has yet reached its peak.
The wine was born in 2005, when Joe Votek discovered botrytis in the Farina SB vineyard at the beginning of harvest. We asked him for all of the botrytised fruit and brought it in just ripe, at a potential alcohol of about 13.5%-- not a late harvest wine at all. We began our first experiment with skin-contact whites with this wine-- we crushed the fruit and macerated it for 48 hours before pressing the extract more flavor from the botrytised skins. Even though this wine was not skin-fermented, it set the scene for the skin-fermented wines we would make from the vineyard in subsequent years.
We called this wine Cena Trimalchionis, after the portait of an amazing banquet in Petronius' Satryricon. We have four cases of the second bottling of this wine (we accidentally left a barrel out of the first bottling); it is called "Cena II" and spent an additional 4 months in barrel. We have included one bottle of this Origin of the Prince wine in this selection.
The rest of the package consists of one bottle each of the 2006 (drinking perfectly), the 2008, the 2009, and the newly released 2010. (We sold out the 2007 by accident and now we don't even have any in our library.) This historical progression shows the Prince not just in its glory but its seriousness.
five vintages of the Prince-- from its origins. We pay for ground shipping.
I have tried to hold back a few cases of this wine in every year to track its maturation. Our sense is that each vintage is still improving and that no wine has yet reached its peak.
The wine was born in 2005, when Joe Votek discovered botrytis in the Farina SB vineyard at the beginning of harvest. We asked him for all of the botrytised fruit and brought it in just ripe, at a potential alcohol of about 13.5%-- not a late harvest wine at all. We began our first experiment with skin-contact whites with this wine-- we crushed the fruit and macerated it for 48 hours before pressing the extract more flavor from the botrytised skins. Even though this wine was not skin-fermented, it set the scene for the skin-fermented wines we would make from the vineyard in subsequent years.
We called this wine Cena Trimalchionis, after the portait of an amazing banquet in Petronius' Satryricon. We have four cases of the second bottling of this wine (we accidentally left a barrel out of the first bottling); it is called "Cena II" and spent an additional 4 months in barrel. We have included one bottle of this Origin of the Prince wine in this selection.
The rest of the package consists of one bottle each of the 2006 (drinking perfectly), the 2008, the 2009, and the newly released 2010. (We sold out the 2007 by accident and now we don't even have any in our library.) This historical progression shows the Prince not just in its glory but its seriousness.
five vintages of the Prince-- from its origins. We pay for ground shipping.
