Winemaker Notes
On the nose, this wine offers notes of honeycrisp apples, bee pollen and sweet rising breakfast pastry dough. The palate shows clove-infused apple and white peach compote -- as well as brioche.
Pair with lobster and stone crab enchiladas, pan grilled salmon on toast with scallion mayonnaise, and smoked trout appetizers with watercress and crisp apple slices.
Full-bodied and flavorful, white Rhône blends originate from France’s Rhône Valley. Today these blends are also becoming popular in other regions. Typically some combination of Grenache Blanc, Marsanne, Roussanne and Viognier form the basis of a white Rhône blend with varying degrees of flexibility depending on the exact appellation. Somm Secret—In the Northern Rhône, blends of Marsanne and Roussanne are common but the south retains more variety. Marsanne, Roussanne as well as Bourboulenc, Clairette, Picpoul and Ugni Blanc are typical.
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