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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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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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The wine is brilliantly clear with specs of green. The nose is fresh with aromas of tropical fruit opening up into...
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The tight racy acidity is the standout characteristic of this Chenin Blanc. Juicy ripe peach and pineapple fruit, a...
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The 2022 Chenin Blanc was naturally fermented in 85% old barrels with minimal intervention, with the remainder...
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• Practicing Organic
• 100% Chenin Blanc.
• Ascona Vineyard (Santa Cruz Mountains AVA).
• Vaqueros sandstone...
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Luc and Jerome Choblet are the third generation to make wine at their family estate, in the Côtes de Grandlieu...
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The grapes were all hand-picked and whole-bunch pressed. The resulting juice was fermented, using ambient yeast, in...
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Pale straw in colour, this wine has a nose of sun ripened pears and wet granite. The palate has a vibrant acidity...
Chenin Blanc Melon de Bourgogne Mencia 2022
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.