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Producer | Early Mountain Vineyards |
Country | United States |
Region | Virginia |
Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
Vintage | 2019 |
Item# | 64730 |
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The 2019 Eluvium is an 80/19 blend of Merlot and Petit Verdot, with a trace of Cabernet Sauvignon, all aged for 18 months in 40% new French barriques. It comes in at 14.2% alcohol. Two years younger than the Rise, obviously, this unsurprisingly seems a little more tense and a little fuller, but the ideas are the same. Elegant, precise and focused, this is a blend that says "Bordeaux," just like its Rise sibling does this issue. The Rise has the advantage of two years more in bottle, so it is better developed, but at the moment, I don't see much qualitative difference between them except that. The vintages are different, to be sure, but they both make a statement for elegance and balance while expressing their fruit beautifully. We'll see what happens when they both get more age on them, as I suspect the Rise may have a slightly higher upside, but right now I'd just say "pick 'em." There were 585 cases produced from a blend of mountain vineyard fruit, including Quaker Run, Russ Mountain, Capstone vineyard and Shenandoah Springs (Cabernet Franc).
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