WINEMAKER NOTES:
Enticing nose of spicy pears and white peaches, almond paste/marzipan, a touch of honeysuckle perfume. Multi-dimensional (many layers), a hard-to-describe range of aromatics, intriguing, almost mysterious! In the mouth it is crisply dry yet creamy and round and full-bodied, with nice almond paste on crisp-yet-juicy pear fruit.
HARVEST DATE:
- Sept. 10 (Roussanne/Viognier) & 19 (GB/Marsanne), 2020
FERMENTATION CHARACTERISTICS:
- 100% barrel fermented, then stirred weekly for 5mos About 10% finished malolactic fermentation
CELLAR STORAGE/AGING:
- 8 months in all older French barrels: 65% oak, 35% Acacia 25% 2-yr-old, 75% older/neutral
VARIETAL:
- 34% Grenache Blanc 32% Roussanne 22% Viognier 12% Marsanne
APPELLATION:
- 100% Paso Robles, Nevarez Vyd **all Sustainably Grown