Araujo Sauvignon Blanc 2000
Sauvignon Blanc
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2000
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750ML
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Sauvignon Blanc is the estate's white wine. Like the limited production white wines of great Bordeaux estates, this wine is a complement to the cabernet. To showcase the vineyard character it is fermented and aged primarily in small stainless-steel drums, with a minor percentage seasoned in oak barrels. A small portion of estate-grown viognier is blended with the sauvignon for elevated floral notes. We cellar our Araujo Estate Sauvignon Blanc after fermentation, allowing it to fully develop its characteristic tropical flavors with underlying mineral and spice prior to release.
Since 1971, some of California's most ageworthy and intensely-flavored Cabernet Sauvignons have been made from grapes grown at the Eisele Vineyard, located on a benchland near the northern end of Napa Valley, just east of Calistoga. Protected by the Palisades Mountains to the north and cooled by westerly breezes from the Chalk Hill Gap, this 38-acre vineyard is planted on warm cobbly soils that produce a low-yielding crop of exceptionally concentrated fruit. Bart and Daphne Araujo acquired the Eisele Vineyard in 1990, and committed to producing only wines of the highest caliber and distinction. Araujo Estate produces 4 wines each vintage: Cabernet Sauvignon Eisele Vineyard, Altagracia, Syrah Eisele Vineyard and Sauvignon Blanc Eisele Vineyard.
VIN10713_2000 Item# 42768