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Chiseled stone, crushed strawberry, dark carnation and pleasantly toasty oak aromas show on the nose of this blend of...
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Poised and precise ripe black cherry and black currant, with some undertones of leather and cocoa. The wine rests...
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Dry, easy drinking wine with notes of quince, pear and granny smith apples.
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Twice a year, the sun crosses the celestial equator, resulting in a day and night of equal length. These occurrences...
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We are proud to have produced Dry Chenin Blanc each and every year since our family winery was founded in 1972....
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Crushed red fruit and clay on the nose. Full-to medium-bodied with well-structured tannins. Juicy, ripe red and black...
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Aromas of redcurrants, blackberries, sliced plums and smoking tobacco. Full-bodied with fine, soft tannins. Black and...
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When Matchbook set out to create a powerhouse wine, we chose to base our Pillars on the pillars of strength from the...
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• Practicing Organic • 100% Chenin Blanc. • Ascona Vineyard (Santa Cruz Mountains AVA). • Vaqueros sandstone...
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Aroma : Just-Pickup blackberry, italian plum, lavender. Flavor : Mulberry, violette liqueur, chai spice.
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This concentrated kitchen chameleon carries our banner for California crowd-pleasers. Year after year, excellent...
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An overall balanced blend with 51% Petit Verdot, 25% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Malbec making up the blend. Heavy oak...
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Chenin Blanc Red Blend United States California Mendocino County Santa Cruz County Yolo County

Originating in France yet now grown in many parts of the New World, Chenin Blanc is one of the most versatile and highly regarded white wine grape varietals on earth. These green skinned grapes hold a relatively high acid content, and as such can be used for making still white wines of exceptional quality, as well as superb sparkling wines (such as the Crémant wines of the Loire Valley) and extremely aromatic dessert wines. Their natural transparency means that they are a fine grape for expressing their terroir in the bottle, and winemakers often experiment with this varietal to coax unusual and intense flavors from the grapes, such as allowing the development of noble rot on the fruit in order to make sweet and viscous wines of a unique character.

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.