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Svmma Varietalis | Sue-Ma Vah-Re-eh-Tal-Ees |

“Svmma” is a Latin word commonly used to mean “addition” or “compendium” of knowledge, as this wine captures the cumulative experience of two generations of the Falcó family. Svmma is 48 percent Syrah, 30 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, and 22 percent Petit Verdot from fifteen-to-forty-year-old vines, aged for fourteen months in French oak between one and two years old. The wine is deep ruby red in color with purple hues, with an elegant nose of pepper, clove, smoke, and dark berries. On the palate, it is rich with soft tannins with a long, fruit-filled finish. 2013 : 90 WA | 2008 : 90 WA, 92 WE Editor’s Choice | 2007 : 90 WA, 90 WE | 2006 : 91 WA | 2005 : 90 WA, 90 WE Cabernet Sauvignon This wine is 100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon aged for twelve to fifteen months in new and second- passage French oak. Exhibiting a deep purple color, the wine bursts from the glass with intense aromas of black cherries, chocolate, and spices, with complex herbal and floral notes including lavender and rosemary. On the palate, it expands to reveal a full body with outstanding depth of fruit. It is well structured with round, soft tannins. 2013 : 90 WA | 2011 : 92 WE, 90 WS | 2010 : 93 WS & Top 100 List 2014, 92 WE | 2008 : 91 WE | 2007 : 90 WE, 91 WS | 2006 : 91 WA Petit Verdot This wine incredibly unique 100 percent Petit Verdot thought to be the first ever bottling of its kind, sourced from a pioneering single-variety vineyard planted in 1992. It is aged for eighteen months in new and second-passage French oak. This wine has a deep red color with complex aromas of flowers, ripe black fruit, vanilla, licorice, spice, and freshly ground pepper. The palate exhibits rich balanced tannins, excellent depth, and a beautifully concentrated and textured finish. 2012 : 89 WA | 2011 : 93 WS, 92 WE | 2010 : 91 WE | 2007 : 90 WS | 2006 : 92 WA, 91 WS El Rincón This wine is produced from a blend of Syrah and Garnacha from the El Rincón estate vineyard in the Aldea del Freso region of the DO Vinos de Madrid. The family strives to capture the unique terroir in the bottle of each wine they make, and El Rincón is no exception. Here, the vines are grown in decomposed granite, which they believe lends an unmistakable elegance and precision to the final wine. El Rincón is deep ruby red in color, and marked by expressive notes of ripe plums, violets, spice and a hint of caramel. On the palate, it shows outstanding balance of tannin and acidity with plenty of ripe fruit, backed up with firm but soft tannins. 2013 : 89 WA | 2010 : 88 WA | 2008 : 90 WE | 2007 : 91 WA

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