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Volume #7: January 2006 |
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| Victories Rosé | |
| With Valentine’s Day coming up, what better gift to give your sweetheart than the gift of wine. The 2004 Fleming Jenkins Victories Rosé is tasting great this time of year, and would be the perfect wine to enjoy with your candle-lit dinner on February 14th. Not only is it a wonderful wine, but it is a wine with an even better cause. 100% of net profits after taxes of this and future vintages will be donated to charities supporting breast cancer research. Victories Rosé is available exclusively at online retailers www.wine.com and www.klwines.com. |  |
| New Release Wines | |
| With our initial wines selling out very quickly, we have been excited to get our next round of wines ready for our customers. We’re happy to tell you that February 1st is the big day. We will be releasing our 2004 Santa Cruz Mountains Jenkins Vineyards Chardonnay as well as our 2005 San Francisco Bay Syrah Rosé. Please click here to download our latest order form. Order now – we look forward to your comments. Satisfaction guaranteed! | |
| Cellar Update | |
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Our 2005 wines are neatly tucked away in barrel now, where they are completing the last of primary fermentation, and
undergoing malolactic (secondary) fermentation as well. Each time that we taste through the barrels we are more and
more pleased. The wines are developing nicely, the French oak is beginning to integrate with the wine tannins, and the
overall flavors are melding.
Our 2004 Bordeaux Blend is also tasting great. We did our initial blend of the 5 major Bordeaux varietals (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and Petit Verdot) in August to allow time for all of the wines to marry together into a wonderful blend. This wine is set to be bottled early in the summer of 2006 after nearly 21 months in barrel, and will be released later this year. We are also planning to bottle our 2004 Livermore Valley Madden Ranch Syrah as well as our 2004 Santa Cruz Mountains Syrah in mid-February, so be on the look out for those wines in the upcoming months as well. | |
| Best Regards, | |
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Greg & Peggy
and the Fleming Jenkins Team |
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