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The nose draws you in with fresh picked strawberry, juicy watermelon and guava, while the palate displays layers of...
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A serious, singular, powerful, Chenin Blanc unrivaled in America. Savory from start to finish. Lemon and toast give...
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The 2022 Chenin Blanc Jurassic Park Vineyard emerges from one of the top sites in Santa Barbara. The pedigree here is...
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Our rosé delights on first blush and long after, with aromas of peach, pear and watermelon. Light to medium-bodied...
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There is a play between savory versus fresh and subtlety versus power that make this wine very intriguing. The aromas...
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• Practicing Organic
• 100% Chenin Blanc.
• Ascona Vineyard (Santa Cruz Mountains AVA).
• Vaqueros sandstone...
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$29.90
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From a high desert site in the Gabilan Mountains, neighboring Pinnacles State Park. Harvested from a south facing...
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$15.99
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Impeccably balanced texture, crisp acidity and layered versatility allows for easy entertaining in both casual and...
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$31.94
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Leave the strawberry rhubarb pie cooling on the counter, lace up your skates, and feel the sunshine. This restorative...
750ml
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$42.00
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• Practicing Organic.
• 100% Chenin Blanc.
• Lyman Ranch (Amador County).
• Red granitic soils.
• Planted...
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• Practicing Organic and Biodynamic.
• Pinot Noir and Old Vine Grenache.
• Whole bunch pressed on a delicate...
750ml
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The extraordinary Precious Twin Rosé 2023 is an elegant blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Charbono – a varietal you’ll...
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This vintage offers an incredibly lovely springtime freshness that is eminently drinkable. Light red berry notes,...
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$22.50
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Dense strawberry and melon fruit dives deep into a sunburst blast of energy on both the nose and pallet. Fresh herb...
Chenin Blanc Melon de Bourgogne Rose / Blush United States California 12 Ship Free Items
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.
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.
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.