Miner The Oracle Napa Valley 2016
Miner The Oracle Napa Valley 2016
Miner Family Winery
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THE ORACLE
Napa Valley Red Wine
The Oracle is an exceptionally balanced, full-bodied red blend made from grapes grown at Stagecoach Vineyard in the eastern hills of Napa Valley. In Greek mythology, the oracle was a source of inspiration and revelation. We hope that you will find the answers to life’s most compelling questions while enjoying The Oracle with friends and family.
Our flagship wine, a full-bodied, single vineyard red blend, grants a nod toward elegance. This Bordeaux-style blend is silky, reserved and supremely balanced. Lush aromatics of raspberry and dark cherry with a hint of eucalyptus, The Oracle is decadent, but with finesse. Earthiness and layers of dried flowers and cocoa integrate harmoniously into a finely balanced marriage between tannin and acid, providing the structure that ensures, like all impeccable beauties, this wine is sure to age gracefully.
APPELLATION
100% Napa Valley
VINEYARD
Stagecoach, Rutherford, Chiles Valley, Yountville and Oakville Vineyards
BLEND
59% Cabernet Sauvignon 19% Cabernet Franc 17% Merlot 2.5% Petit Verdot 2.5% Malbec
HARVEST
October 13th - 30th, 2018 Picked at 24 - 27.6 Brix
FERMENTATION
22 Months 60% new French oak
ANALYSIS
Alcohol 14.5% pH 3.47 TA .66
PRODUCTION
6,429 6-packs
BOTTLED
August 2020
RELEASE DATE
Summer 2022
VINTAGE NOTES
This near perfect growing season began in late February. Temperatures remained consistent and warm throughout the growing and ripening season without significant heat spikes, enabling a longer-than-usual harvest. Quantity and quality were both abundant in 2018, with many vineyards producing yields of up to 40% more than recent averages.
RATINGS
93 POINTS Jeb Dunnuck, February 2019
The flagship 2016 Red Blend The Oracle is a blend of 59% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Cabernet Franc, 17% Merlot, and the balance Malbec and Petit Verdot. It’s slightly deeper colored than the Oakville Cabernet and gives up plenty of red and black fruits, spicy oak, tobacco, and graphite. A big step up on the richness scale, it still has beautiful purity and elegance as well as fine tannins, terrific balance, and a great finish. Drink it any time over the coming two decades.
94+ POINTS Wine Advocate, December 2018
The 2016 The Oracle has a deep garnet-black color and perfumed nose of roses and lilacs with kirsch, tea, earth, cassis and black cherries scents. The palate is medium-bodied, elegant, fresh and juicy with a firm frame of grainy tannins, finishing long and minerally. – Lisa Perrotti-Brown
90 POINTS James Suckling, November 2018
A very ripe red with dried-berry and raisin character. Full body, round and chewy tannins and a flavorful finish. A little overdone, but still outstanding quality in a typical Napa way. Drink now.
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