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THE WINE Amila is a blend of 73% syrah, 25% grenache and 2% viognier. Syrah for Amila is sourced from our estate vineyard in the York Mountain Appellation. Grenache and viognier come from the Larner Vineyard in the Santa Ynez Valley. THE VINEYARD Syrah in our Amila blend comes from Shadow Canyon Vineyard in the York Mountain Appellation. Shadow Canyon is a mountain vineyard located on Californias central coast. Located in the East-West corridor known as the Templeton Gap, the vineyard lies at 1,600 elevation approximately 8 miles from the ocean. The corridor allows cool marine air and fog to roll into the vineyard, which experiences daytime highs in the 80s and 90s with night-time lows in the 40s. This large diurnal tem-perature swing promotes a long growing sea-son and promotes balanced fruit development. The Larner Vineyard is located on a 150 acre family-owned piece of land on Ballard Canyon in the Santa Ynez Valley (Santa Barbara County, California). Of these, 33 acres are planted to Rhone grape varietals. eLEVAGE Barrel aged for 20 months in 100% French oak barrels, 40% of which were new and 60% neutral. The wine is unfined and unfiltered. The grenache was harvested October 16th, 2004. Five different clones of syrah were harvested from our 11 acre vineyard over an 18 day period between September 8th and September 26th, 2004. The wine was racked only twice over the life in barrel. VINTAGE: 2004 VARIETAL: 73% Syrah 25% Grenache 2% Viognier VINEYARD SOURCE: Syrah: Shadow Canyon Vineyard Grenache: Larner Vineyard Viognier: Larner Vineyard PRODUCTION: 240 cases RELEASE DATE: November, 2006

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