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Slightly dry, with a crisp and clean finish for a wine with less sugar and no flavor additives. Now you can drink...
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Light-bodied, refreshing Pinot Grigio with tropical citrus, ripe pear and a zesty, clean finish. Eat with...
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What do you get when you blend the refreshingly crisp notes of green apple, white peach and citrus? You get a wine...
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This delightful, domestic sparkler is teaming with aromas of fresh orchard fruits and chalky, mineral tones. The bead...
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Notes of fresh toast, graham cracker and cream, blend with ripe orchard and stone fruit on the nose. On the plate...
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Crisp and vibrant, with boldly expressive cherry, toasty, yeast and graham cracker flavors that finish on a snappy...
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The Carneros Cuvée is our Tête de Cuvée. It represents the best fruit from our 335 acre estate as well as our...
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This bright and refreshing Pinot Gris offers generous aromas of pear and green apple that are accompanied by hints of...
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A bubbly with richness and verve, this cuvee offers lilting apple tart, creme brulee and lemon verbena flavors that...
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Finesse, detail and elegance make this wine outstanding from the first whiff to the lingering finish. Subtle aromas...
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Succulent and seductive, with festive raspberry and lemon crème brûlée flavors accented by fresh gingerbread and...
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#11 ENTHUSIAST 100 2022. With an inviting, fruity nose, this is a crowd-pleasing, well-made and memorable sparkler...
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Ripe fruits of honeydew and yellow apple mingle with sourdough and fresh grass notes. Full-bodied and quite...
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Some sliced melon and lemon rind with hints of flint. Medium-bodied, creamy and medium fruity. Clean and bright....
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Firm and juicy, with pear, lime and melon flavors that show nice concentration and acidity, revealing apple skin on...
Champagne Blend Marsanne Pinot Gris United States California 750ml
The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.
The Pinot Grigio or Pinot Gris grape varietal is now one of the most widely grown vines in the world, due to the surge in popularity of Pinot Grigio wines over the past twenty years or so. These grayish-blue fruits, which hang in their distinctively conical bunches, are responsible for a very broad range of wines famous for their variety of color tones and flavors Pinot Grigio varietal grapes are highly influenced by terroir, climate and particularly the skill and expertise of the vintners who process them. As such, there are full bodied, amber colored wines made from this grape, and there are equally delicious yet far leaner, paler, lighter bodied and crisp white wines made from the same species in other parts of the world.
Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.
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.