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Piner Creek Ranch Sauvignon Blanc

Piner Creek Ranch Sauvignon Blanc Wine Details
Price: $28.00 per bottle

Description: Wildly exotic Central American tropical fruit notes, especially of green Jocote, Star Fruit, kiwi skins and a touch of passion fruit framed by sweet pea leaf and a very slight sweaty, animale, visceral quality that is dangerously sexy. Tropical fruit on the mouth with kiwi, passion fruit and Star fruit in the fore and the more herbal notes found in the nose echoing on the late palate. Truly un- Californian in its presentation.

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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