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Pale gold yellow in colour with light green sheen brilliant, bright and clear a young honest appearance. A rich...
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Fruits like limes and pink grapefruit open up into floral notes with subtle fennel with a freshly cut touch. Rich...
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Lemons, peaches, sliced apples and blanched almonds on the nose. Bright fruit yet creamy and textured, with a medium...
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• 100% Palomino.
• From a less-than-one-hectare parcel of 80-year-old vines planted in slate at high altitude....
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Certified HVE3*. Sourced from 40-year-old Muscadet vines planted in shallow soils of disintegrated mica/schist....
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Certified HVE3*. Extraordinary Muscadet from vines aged 45-60 years planted in decomposed mica/schist soils. The...
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A special cuvée launched in honor of this top biodynamic winery's 20-year anniversary, Clay is, as the name...
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This new special cuvée, launched for this biodynamic winery's 20th anniversary, is a finessed and beautiful bottling...
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Citrus and lemon aromas with sometimes a note of fresh grass; the mouth is balanced and structured. It will be better...
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Crisp, herbaceous and with citrus flavors, this is a open and fruity wine. It has richness as well as concentration,...
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Ripe apricot and fleshy pineapple, toast, smoky, and cherry spice with a flinty edge to the nose. Yellow plum and...
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A round, lush style, with floral highlights to the lemon cream, nectarine and green plum flavors. Textured and full,...
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Shows sturdy orange blossom, lemon zest and Fuji apple flavors, with a hint of dried pineapple. The juicy finish has...
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Deep and shiny straw color with bright highlights. Fine citrus and yellow fruit notes on the nose. On the palate,...
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Blended with 19% Sémillon, aged eight months sur lie and then given time in stainless steel and French oak, this...
Melon de Bourgogne Sherry Sauvignon Blanc 2020
One of the more unusual French grape varietals, Melon de Bourgogne has been grown in and around the Loire Valley for several hundred years. In fact, this grape was first planted in the Loire region of Pays Nantais back in the mid 17th century, after a devastating frost decimated most of the red grapes which were typical in the area. The winemakers of Pays Nantais were keen to cultivate vines which were hardy, high yielding, and capable of surviving another such frost, and so turned their attention to Melon de Bourgogne for this very reason. The native home of the varietal is actually in Burgundy, where it is still grown to a lesser extent.
Because Melon de Bourgogne produces naturally heavy yields, the vintners of Pays Nantais go to great lengths to reduce the amount of fruit the vines bear. This allows the finest characteristics of the grape to come forward, and also opens up the opportunity for it to express the wonderful granite and schist soils in which the vines are grown. Melon de Bourgogne is a minerally white wine grape varietal, with a very subtle set of fruit flavors. It is prized for its freshness and brightness, and is seeing a revival in the twenty first century as an excellent wine for pairing with a wide range of foods.
Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.
Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.
Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.
The green skinned grapes of the Sauvignon Blanc varietal had their origins in Southern France, where they are still widely grown and used for many of the excellent young and aged white wines the region is famous for. Today, however, they are grown in almost every wine producing country in the world, and are widely revered for their fresh and grassy flavors, full of tropical notes and refreshing, zesty character. Sauvignon Blanc grapes thrive best in moderate climates, and ripen relatively early in the year. This has made them a favorite for many wineries in the New World, where they can still produce healthy and high yields in the earlier part of the summer before the temperatures become too hot. Too much heat has a massively adverse effect on Sauvignon Blanc, as the grapes become dull in their flavor, and the wine produced from them loses all its unique character and high points. As such, Sauvignon Blanc farmers have had a lot of trouble from global warming and climate change, as they are being forced to harvest their crops increasingly earlier in the year when it is cool enough to do so.