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Fragrant nose displays scintillating aromas of pineapple, Asian pear, vanilla crème and toasted almonds, with notes...
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This stunning wine leaps out of the glass, with concentrated flavors and aromas of white peach, quince and pineapple,...
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Since 1989 our family owned and operated winery has produced wines of superior quality and value. This handcrafted...
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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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Exuberant banana, pluot, peach, pineapple, floral and lime aromas form the initial impressions of this 100% stainless...
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The focus is on bright fruit and minerality with apricot and white peach notes and floral aromatics.
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100% Trousseau Gris from Fanucchi-Wood Road Vineyard in Sonoma County. The Fanucchi-Wood Road Vineyard is practicing...
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The Vintner's Reserve Pinot Gris wine is blended with a touch of the Rhône varietals – Roussanne, Viognier, along...
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Aromas of WHITE PEACH, lemon curd and citrus blossom are followed by flavors Meyer lemon, nectarine and hints of...
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A delicious, medium-bodied wine with flavors of bright, tropical fruit and white floral followed by a long structured...
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Nose that captures the freshness and lively aromatics of the fruit: bright and vibrant, with floral notes of...
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The 2023 vintage went through 100% malolactic fermentation which produced this lovely textured wine. Aromas of...
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SIMI California Chardonnay White Wine showcases luscious fruit flavors of apple, pear, peach, and tropical fruit....
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Our Positively Pinot Grigio is a pocketful of sunshine that bursts from the glass with aromas of citrus, stone fruit...
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It undergoes some lees stirring to build body and to highlight the naturally bright, crisp stone fruit flavors. Ripe...
Chardonnay Mencia Pinot Gris 2023 United States California
Of all the white wine grape varietals, surely the one which has spread the furthest and is most widely appreciated is the Chardonnay. This green skinned grape is now grown all over the Old and New Worlds, from New Zealand to the Americas, from England to Chile, and is one of the first varietals people think of when considering white wine grapes. Perhaps this is because of its huge popularity which reached a peak in the 1990s, thanks to new technologies combining with traditional methods to bring the very best features out of the Chardonnay grape, and allow its unique qualities to shine through. Most fine Chardonnay wines use a process known as malolactic fermentation, wherein the malic acids in the grape juice are converted to lactic acids, allowing a creamier, buttery nature to come forward in the wine. No grape varietal is better suited to this process than Chardonnay, which manages to balance these silky, creamy notes with fresh white fruit flavors beautifully.
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.