Broken record........

I have been on a major cabernet franc kick for the past few months, I think it is almost more the fact that wineries tell me I can't have it as much as I just love the wine. As said in past blogs this varietal is typically grown as a blending grape and seldom bottled on it own. This is ashame, it is truly a delight on it's own and needs little help from it's grape brethren.  Occasionally people do bottle this grape and I am usually the first in line to drink this unique flavorful wine.

 Tonight I have the treat of 2005 Steltzner cabernet franc. It is good! 14.6% alcohol (though you certainly can not taste it), 24 months in French oak (that you can taste) 99% cabernet franc and 1% merlot (just because it needed that tiny little extra).  They only produced 785 cases, so there probably is not much, if any, left in the market. It has the typical blueberry and vanilla flavor of this variety with little tannin. Silky, smooth, pleasant, easy to drink, wish there was more in the bottle wine. 

We do have a little more left for sale at Glen Lake Wine and Spirits but you best hurry for it will not last!