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Ryme Cellars Vermentino His Carneros 2011 750ml
Ryme Cellars
- California
- United States
- Carneros
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Vermentino grapes are thought to have originated in Spain, and this white wine varietal is still grown in small quantities on Spanish land. However, it quickly moved eastwards to Italy, and found a new home in the warm and sunny Mediterranean climate there, where it became highly popular due to its hardiness and resistance to rot. Today, it is most closely associated with the islands of Corsica and Sardinia, where it is widely grown and used for producing both fine white wines and table wines, prized for their freshness and acidity. Vermentino wines tend to be rather light in body and low in alcohol, which allows their crispness and acidic nature to come forward, and their flavors of lime and green apple to shine.
California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.
For three hundred years now, the United States has been leading the New World in wine production, both in regards to quantity and quality. Wine is actually produced in all fifty states across the country, with California leading the way by an enormous margin. Indeed, as much as eighty-nine percent of all wines to come out of the United States are produced in California, where the fertile soils and sloping mountain sides, coupled with the long, hot summers provide ideal conditions for producing high quality, European style red, white and rosé wines. With over a million acres of the country under vine, the United States sits comfortably as the fourth largest wine producer in the world, where imported grape varietals from all over the Old World are processed using a successful blend of traditional and contemporary techniques.
California's Carneros wine region is one of the state's youngest established wine areas. It was first planted with vines in the nineteen-forties, long after California was first recognized as an imported wine producing region of the New World. However, it quickly gained many admirers, due to the fact that Carneros offered something quite different from other Californian regions. Indeed, the Pacific fog and brisk, oceanic breezes which pass over Carneros help to temper the vineyards, and stop the grapes which grow there from losing their acidity and bite, making varietals such as Pinot Noir and Chardonnay ideal for the production of sparkling wine. Over the years, Carneros sparkling wines have become increasingly popular due to their quality and flavors, alongside the still red and white wines the region also produces.
