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SUMMARY:Cadenza - A Winemaker's Dream
DESCRIPTION:Cadenza Vineyard wines speak from forty years of growing grapes at one special place.  Just take that in for a moment.  History… commitment… passion…quality. \nOur special Cadenza adventure is Friday\, March 15th at 7 p.m.  Deadline for reservations is March 8th so don’t delay!  We are more than halfway to sold out at this writing. \nJoin Cadenza owner\, Carl Helrich for a special library and barrel tasting event exploring how his wines have developed through time augmented by the Cadenza success story as told in Carl’s entertaining and engaging style. Repeat participants say they never tire of hearing the Cadenza story or tasting the. wines as they develop. \nThis sort of tasting is only offered privately at the winery.  The eight wines included in our PWS event follow\, sprinkled with Carl’s comments. \n2017 Cadenza Chardonnay \nOur second “Reserve Chardonnay” released under our Cadenza Vineyards brand. These Chardonnays are grown here at Allegro in our estate vineyard originally planted in 1973. The vineyard is comprised of roughly 9 different clones of Chardonnay\, every one of which seems to ripen at a different time with different characteristics. The French call this a “field blend” of sorts\, and I believe it is the key to the signature Allegro Chardonnay profile. \nOur Chardonnays are where I feel that I have finally dialed in the right winemaking style and process to allow for the best and most appropriate voice from this vineyard. The fruit is barrel-fermented at cooler temperatures\, then aged on its lees with weekly stirring—batonnage—for the first six months of its life. \n2014 Allegro Reserve Chardonnay (Chardonnay 100%) \nThis is the most balanced release of our Reserve Chardonnay as 2014 displayed enough warming days for peak ripeness while retaining an amazing freshness. It is one of the most Burgundian wines we have created\, and is a great example of a wine just starting to peak in its drinkability. It still shows youth along with a knitting together of its respective parts. This wine really opens up at warmer temperatures\, being more directed to red wine drinkers. \n 2021 Cadenza Bridge (43% Merlot/42% Cabernet Franc/15% Petit Verdot) \nThe 2021 Bridge is one of the most balanced and refined wines that we have bottled in the past few years. Usually my style is more forceful and abrasive\, but the 2021 Bridge shows a refinement and balance that I am usually not capable of. It’s almost European in its sensibility\, while at the same time being approachable at this very young age. The Merlot brings darker fruit and body to the wine\, while the Franc brightens the flavors and adds depth to the aromatics. They play nicely together while the Petit Verdot in the background holds it all together with its structure.   This one of our most hedonistic Bridge offerings ever\, reminiscent of the 2017\, 2007 and 2006. Very Right Bank Bordeaux (for you traditionalists out there)\, but as with all of our wines–in the immortal words of John Crouch—”It’ll pay you back if you hold on to it!” \n2017 Cadenza Bridge (Merlot 36%/Cabernet Franc 34%/Cabernet Sauvignon 22%/Petit Verdot 7%) \nThe 2017 was aged 19 months in new French oak barrels and then pulled from barrels in the summer of 2019. The wine was bottled unfiltered and unfined in early September with 2” corks. The final total was only 134 cases of 750mL bottles and 6 cases of 1.5L magnum bottles. \nNice deep colors and a rich aroma of fruit and oak make this a wine to savor. The structure of the wine is firm yet supple\, making it perfect for pairing with beef dishes. This wine still needs some time to come around fully (even though it’s drinking nicely right now). Maximum enjoyment probably come sometime from now to 2026. \n2013 Allegro Cadenza (Cabernet Sauvignon 73% / Merlot 22% / Petit Verdot 5%) \nThe miraculous 2013 vintage will be one that I remember for a long\, long time. It yielded four reserve-caliber wines for us\, including this one. With this wine\, we returned to the Cadenzas of old with lots of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend. The tannins are not as searing as John’s were in the young wines\, but the structure is very present and its age-ability should be significant. \n2005 Allegro Cadenza (Merlot 59% / Cabernet Sauvignon 27% / Cabernet Franc 14%) \nA Merlot in Bordeaux terms. Using comparatively primitive production methods and minimal handling\, this wine is still a sleeper just starting to wake up. The primary fruit is fading\, but the cocoa tannins are too enticing to make waiting possible. The inherent spiciness and perfume just suck me in. It’s finally starting to hit its stride and land where I wanted it to. The last bottle I enjoyed was just short of mind-blowing in its inherent complexities. \n2023 will be the vintage that sets the new benchmark for wine in Pennsylvania. With an early budbreak and the driest May on record (less than a 1/4″ of rain) followed by a balanced season\, the vines from our Cadenza Vineyard finally showed their potential. The whites exhibit wonderful purity of fruit while the reds show off deep rich colors that speak to their underlying power. These are wines for the ages. Taste two Barrel samples—2023 Chardonnay and 2023 Merlot  (straight from the barrel if we can figure out how to do it logistically). \nTo focus more fully on the wines in this library tasting\, simple cheese and cracker nibbles will accompany the wines. It is strongly suggested that you eat a normal size dinner prior to the event. \nAlso plan your Friday travel time to easily gather by 6:50 p.m.   Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Event starts at 7:00 p.m. at Cadenza Vineyards\, 475 Sechrist Road\, Brogue\, Pennsylvania 17309.  Phone: 717-501-1413. \nThis event is limited to 20 attendees.  Reservations close Friday\, March 8th or\, more likely\, when sold out.  You may MAKE RESERVATIONS via the SHOPPE PAGE of this website. \n    Member —$80  \n    Patron —$75  \n    Nonmember —$100 \n 
URL:https://pawinesociety.org/event-calendar/cadenza-a-winemakers-dream/
LOCATION:Cadenza Vineyards\, Brogue PA\, 3475 Sechrist Road\, Brogue\, PA\, 17309\, United States
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SUMMARY:Allegro Cadenza
DESCRIPTION:by Lynne Beeson__________ \n \nThe Allegro Cadenza event on August 27th has limited seats remaining!  Save your spot here!   All event information is kept current on the PWS website or contact the Treasurers for information.  For those fortunate to have seats reserved\, here are Carl’s notes on the tasting lineup. \nThe Cadenza Vineyards wines speak from forty years of growing grapes at one special place.  Over time we have started to understand what works for us here.  It starts with Chardonnay and moves through Cabernet Sauvignon and then Merlot and finishes with Petit Verdot blends. \nOur Chardonnay Vineyard was originally planted in 1973 (along with our Cabernet Sauvignon)\, and while time and climate have not been kind to the vines\, we have steadily re-planted with better clones and rootstocks.  In true French fashion\, our Chardonnay block contains 8 different clones all ripening at different times but harvested together.  The wine tastes less of “Chardonnay” and more of “Allegro” (or\, rather\, “Cadenza”).  The fruit is barrel-fermented in newer French oak barrels\, and it remains in the same barrel up until bottling.  The richness of the lees fills out the wine and fleshes out the flavors. \n2019 Chardonnay – Our most recent Chardonnay is the culmination of my search for balance between barrels and fruit.  Struggling to balance the fermentation in barrels while retaining fruit characteristics is anathema to both techniques.  The solution seems to lie in the ripeness and chemistries found at harvest in our vineyard. \n2017 Chardonnay – This vintage has hit its stride and is starting to exhibit the mature flavors that our older vintages showcase while retaining enough primary fruit to provide liveliness and complexity. \n2014 Allegro Reserve Chardonnay – To show that even our whites have ageability\, it was necessary to include an older one.   The 2014 exhibits flavors of honey and butterscotch while retaining enough acidity to balance the richness. \nOur Merlot block was part of our re-planting in 2015.  Having sourced budwood from our friends at Black Ankle\, we were able to plant clean vines on what we consider the “heirloom” part of our vineyard site. French ENTAV clone 181 on de-vigorizing 101-14 rootstock brings the yields in this iron and clay rich field down to two and a half tons per acre. \n2017 Merlot – Vineyards are planted for the next generation\, and our three acre block produced a wine in 2017 that justified the planting. Then a year later\, we lost one third to freeze damage\, and thus began the slow turning towards Petit Verdot.  Merlot is the grape that makes the wine that is easy to like … and to hate … and to love. \n“Bridge” was a wine conceived initially with John Crouch back in 2001. It was meant to be a bridge between his Cadenza tradition and my own (which wouldn’t begin for another four years.)  It has come to take on the significance of being our “Second Wine” in the Bordeaux tradition. The blend changes from year to year\, but the quality remains the same. \n2019 Bridge – Petit Verdot 65%/Merlot 27%/Cabernet Sauvignon 8%.  2019 was a strong but not stellar vintage–hence\, no Cadenza–and yet the Petit Verdot and Merlot solidly ripened. The wine is still young and still has hints of the new barrels in which it was aged and which gave it some of its tannic structure. \n2017 Bridge – Merlot 36%/Cabernet Franc 34%/Cabernet Sauvignon 22%/Petit Verdot 7%.  Merlot and Cabernet Franc have such an affinity for each other and together produce blends which form a sweetness that seems incongruous to the tannic structure. This Bridge is much more gregarious and charismatic than our Cadenzas\, while at the same time having a complex set of flavors and textures that draws one in. \nOur flagship wine\, the redundantly named “Cadenza Vineyards Cadenza” has been a tradition of Bordeaux blends since 1984.  Some years favor Merlot\, while others Cabernet Sauvignon or Petit Verdot.  Time and learning has shifted this wine from its Cabernet roots to Merlot and on to Petit Verdot dominance.  But the blend has always been of the highest importance.  This is a wine that speaks to the potential of fine wine in Pennsylvania. \n2017 Cadenza – Petit Verdot 41%/Cabernet Sauvignon 38%/Merlot 16%/Cabernet Franc 5%.  As young vines\, the tannins on the Petit Verdot are not nearly as impenetrable as will be the case as these vines age\, and therefore the Merlot and Cabernet Franc quotient is quite minimal. This wine achieves a body and richness which belies the fact that it is the first harvest off the new plantings. \nThe Cadenza wines are meant to be aged and enjoyed mature even though they are sometimes too enticing while young.  The Crouch Cadenzas were tough in their youth while my tradition relies on Merlot to soften the Cabernet tannins and provide a mid-palate that entices.  Typical lifespan for Bridge and Cadenza is over twenty years.  A maximum lifespan has not yet been determined. \n1998 Cadenza – 95% Cabernet Sauvignon/3% Merlot/2% Cabernet Franc. The last Cadenza made by John and Tim Crouch (and the first one that I helped work on as well.)  Stylistically this is the last of its kind\, relying almost solely on the Cabernet Sauvignon to carry the moniker. The early winemaking notes claim that this wine was softer in its youth than other Cadenzas of its ilk\, and that staggers the imagination to ponder what the 1995 or 1991 might have tasted like when young. \nAll of the Cadenza Vineyards wines are aged in 100% new French oak barrels (with the exception of some whites which are in older barrels). The whites are aged for approximately 8-10 months and filtered prior to bottling while the reds are aged for 18-22 months and not filtered. \n2020 Barrel Sample Blend – As the wines develop over time\, we look forward to seeing how they best work together in blends. 2020\, for all of its pandemical trials and tribulations\, did yield wine that will find its way into the Cadenza milieu.  Taste the potential future of Cadenza. \nThis promises to be a delightful summer evening at Allegro!   We will be on the covered deck weather permitting; or if not\, will move indoors to the barrel room.  Bring a light jacket or sweater. \n100% COVID 19 vaccination proof with follow-up 14-day waiting period completion is required to confirm event reservations.  All current CDC\, PA DOH and Allegro Winery safety precautions and infection prevention precautions will be observed. \nPlease plan to have dinner or a generous snack prior to arrival. Planned not to distract the palate\, simple cheese and cracker nibbles will accompany these nine fabulous Cadenza wines.  Also plan your travel time to easily gather by 6:50 PM on Friday\, August 27th at Allegro Winery—3475 Sechrist Road\, Brogue\, Pennsylvania 17309.  Ph: 717-927-9148.  See you there! \nGo to Website Reservations            Member:  $85         ~       Patron Member: $80 \n 
URL:https://pawinesociety.org/event-calendar/allegro-cadenza/
LOCATION:Cadenza Vineyards\, Brogue PA\, 3475 Sechrist Road\, Brogue\, PA\, 17309\, United States
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