2016 Kathryn Kennedy Lateral Red Blend

Tasting Notes

Very deep dark royal purple color. Classic Bordeaux style nose with tobacco leaf herb notes and dark brooding black berry aromas plus hints of cherry cream candies. Ideal amounts of subtle creamy oak barrel influences. Soft ripe plums, vanilla cream and loamy earth notes are complex and very inviting. Fresh but rich in the mouth (like so many wines of 2016), lithe and elegant mouth-feel leads to cranberry, minerals and dark cocoa flavors. Tannins are still youthful and acid balance portends well for cellar development; This is a bigger style of LATERAL to be enjoyed now and over a longer period of years.

Blend - 67% Merlot, 33% Cabernet Franc

About Kathryn Kennedy's Lateral

LATERAL has earned a cult following for being quite simply the finest Bordeaux-style blend at its price point. Lateral is an artisan wine, handmade by Chris Condos (Vinum Cellars and Horse & Plow) in concert with owner Marty Mathis. Condos is renowned for his expertise in high quality, small batch wines and his advocacy of Advanced Organics winemaking practices.