Saperavi

This alluring and deep wine has aromas of plum, blackberry, and crisp fall leaves.  It's soft on the palate and has flavors of bright red berries, cherries, raspberries, black raspberry and cassis.  These fruit flavors are balanced with smoke, spice, and earth tones.  This deep and soulful wine lingers nicely on the palate.  Enjoy now by decanting for a few hours or cellar for the next 5-15 years.

This vintage has boastful aromatics of ripe blackberry, elderberry, and cocoa along with a touch of butterscotch. It is rich and full on the palate with flavors of black cherry, cassis, and plum...a present and confident wine.

Dark, tannic and ripe fruit character abounds in this vintage.  Sweet American oak character resides in the background and supplies even more structure to this wine.  

This is a big, broad, and spacious wine on the palate with a peppery character along with flavors of sweet oak, roasted coconut, spice, black currant, and a touches of serrano pepper, tobacco, and smoke. The finish is smooth and lingering.

This is a big, broad, and spacious wine on the palate with a peppery character along with flavors of sweet oak, roasted coconut, spice, black currant, and a touches of serrano pepper, tobacco, and smoke. The finish is smooth and lingering.

A bold wine in a deep purple-red color. Fruit driven aromatics and flavors of blackberry, plum, elderberry, spice and gripping tannins. Savor this wine’s big finish.

This wine takes a hold of your palate and doesn’t let go. Aromas of plum, black currant, and blackberry rise out of the glass along with a subtle dust/dried leaves/forest floor character. Flavors include tart cherry, blueberry, elderberry, smoke, moss, and earth - and more and more.

This thick and opaque wine has a deep ruby color and very complex aromas and flavors; it’s a smooth wine with attitude. The aromas are reminiscent of spice, bourbon barrels, oak, and black and blue fruits (super ripe plums and blueberries) along with an underlying woodsy, mossy, and fresh soil character. It’s a big, broad, and spacious wine with a peppery character along with flavors of sweet oak, toasted coconut, spice, black currant and a touch of serrano pepper, tobacco and smoke. The finish is smooth and lingering.

McGregor Vineyard began producing its first Saperavi in 1985. Saperavi is an ancient wine grape originally from the country of Georgia. This estate grown and produced Saperavi was aged in oak barrels for one year. It has intense aromas and flavors of black currants and blackberries along with hints of earth, spice, and oak. While enjoyable in its youth, this wine will age nicely for many years.

90 Points, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Saperavi is the primary grape of this wine and it is blended with a touch of the Moldovan grape, Sereksiya Charni. Aromas of black currant, blackberry, sweet oak, spice and smoke follow through beautifully on the palate. There are some nice plum and coconut flavors blended in as well. Silky tannins coat the palate and lead to a very pleasant, long finish. This wine was matured in oak barrels for three full years.