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Odyssey Pinot Auxerrois

Odyssey Pinot Auxerrois Wine Details
Price: $16.99 per bottle

Description: The Auxerrois grapes used in our Odyssey Series are picked from our very first Gray Monk vines planted in 1976 and 1977. These old vines produce a small crop with intense fruit flavours. The juice was fermented in a temperature-controlled environment in stainless steel tanks for 14 days. With a pale green hue, this wine's layered fruity aroma suggests peaches, apricots and almonds. The clean flavours recall apples and apricots with a lingering note of almond on the crisp, clean finish. The disciplined texture of this wine shows finesse and elegance. Serve chilled with seafood.

Varietal Definition
Auxerrois:
French local name for the Malbec, aka Cot red wine grape species grown in the Cahors region of France and also, confusingly, an important white wine grape in the Alsace region called the Auxerrois Blanc that is distinct from another locally grown white wine grape called the Auxerrois Gris that is actually the Pinot Gris varietal grape.


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