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Five Grapes ~ Eleven Vineyards ~ One Wine
M5 is always all about Grenache and, as it is every year, the trick is to balance the crimson, aromatic, lean, bright, tight, crangrape, (crangrape is a made up word) tobacco, smoky, leather, earthy, Grenache, Counoise, Mourvèdre, Cinsault based components with the bombastic, dark, black, licorice, plum, fruity, tannic, bold, intense ripe, full-bodied Syrah we make. Light ruby red in color with red licorice, lean and dry, it’s like a 2007 Rhone with good acidity and not as fruity as M5 often is. The wine is persistent and still very young. The M5 mission statement: M5 is a wine that is from a thought – a blend that is an amalgamation of memories, both distant and recent, of wines I’ve tasted and loved the past thirty-three years.
51% Syrah (53% Colson Canyon Vineyard clone 877, 37% Great Oak Ranch Vineyard and 10% Purisima Mountain Vineyard that was pulled from a new Françoise Frères barrel), 32% Grenache (58% Alamo Creek Vineyard and 42% Grundoon Vineyards), 11% Mourvèdre from Camp Four Vineyard, 3% Counoise from Camp Four Vineyard and 3% Cinsault from Camp Four Vineyard. This is an eighteen barrel selection blended and crafted by Doug Margerum.