Shackled Vin de Paille
2012 Petit Manseng Dessert Wine from the Cumulus Vineyard
- The 2012 Shackled is made from the Petit Manseng grape which is native to Southwest France
and is most commonly used to produce sweet wine there and elsewhere.
- This is the first wine from SQN with Petite Manseng as the primary grape.
- It is a Vin de Paille style wine.
That is, the grapes are dried on straw mats before fermentation.
In this case, the grapes were picked on September 4, 2012, then air dried for 30 days.
- It was aged for 34 months in all new, "extra tight" French oak barrels.
- Shackled is 100% Petit Manseng from the Cumulus vineyard in Oak View, California.
- The alcohol is 11.3%. Acidity is 7.1 g/l. Residual sugar is 25.5%.
- Bottled only in 375ml bottles.
- Shipped together with the 2014 Shakti Grenache
and 2014 Piranha Waterdance Syrah in the spring of 2017
(if you were able to purchase both wines).
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Three half bottles of the 2012 SQN Shackled came in a special wood box:
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If you received a three-pack of the 2012 Shackled,
it came in the same shipment as the 2014 Shakti Grenache
and 2014 Piranha Waterdance Syrah in the spring of 2017.
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