A note about wine quality

In an effort to offer only the highest quality and mature products, many of our wines are aged naturally both in barrel and in bottle. Some wines are released many months or even years after barreling and bottling.  During the bottle aging process, a wine will change and may produce natural derivatives.  These derivatives may include fine sediment and in some wines, tartrate crystals. These crystals may look like sand particles and may be found on top of a cork or in the bottom of your glass after pouring.  They are completely harmless and are simply a function of the natural tartaric acid components of the wine falling out in solid form after a wine has been aged in a cool environment. Our white wines are cold stabilized to prevent this natural occurrence, but this effect may be seen in some red wines which are not cold stabilized. Neither sediment nor tartrate will affect the flavor of the wine.  We recommend decanting our extended-aged wines prior to serving.  Decanting will mitigate the appearance of sediment and better prepare the wine for drinking.