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Wine Details
Price:
$19.00 per bottle
Description:
The effects of Botrytis Cinerea are well known. This 'noble rot' attacks the nearly ripe grapes late in the growing season, piercing the grape skins and allowing the moisture to escape causing the berries to shrivel and shrink, much like raisins. The juice remaining is unusually concentrated and sweet. This wine was harvested from fantastically concentrated, hand selected Sauvignon Blanc grapes at 36 degrees brix. It was fermented in French oak barrels and allowed to stop fermenting naturally with 13% residual sugar. It was aged to a mellow perfection with eighteen months in French oak barrels and is now ready to enjoy by itself or with desserts. Full of ripe honey, peach, nectarine, orange blossom, and pineapple fruit, this is truly a decadent dessert wine.
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Varietal Definition
Sauvignon Blanc:
Sauvignon Blanc is widely grown in California — at over 15,000 acres, it’s now the third most planted variety — and often assumes the moniker ‘Fume Blanc’. This popular synonym, credited to Napa’s Robert Mondavi, derives from the grape’s historic home of Pouilly in France’s Upper Loire Valley, where Sauvignon Blanc is the dominant varietal and goes locally by the name of ‘Blanc Fumé’. When treated with respect and afforded suitable growing conditions, Sauvignon Blanc is one of the wine world’s darlings. Steely, racy acidity, green, gooseberry fruit, asparagus and a grassy, herbaceous character characterize dry wines made from this grape.
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