Winemaker Notes
Blend: 63% Semillon, 37% Sauvignon Blanc
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Delicious and aromatic Sauternes-like wine with a spicy, exotic character. It shows dried persimmon, candied peach, fresh honey, saffron and propolis aromas and flavors. Medium- to full-bodied, dense and creamy, with a long aftertaste. Very solid, balanced and focused. Really perfumed and flavorful. Drink or hold.
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Wine Enthusiast
Flavors of apricot, ripe pear, fresh orange and candied orange peel greet the palate with impressive persistence. A sweet and generous midpalate is washed clean by mouthwatering acidity through a long finish. Nice depth of flavor and length.
Apart from the classics, we find many regional gems of different styles.
Late harvest wines are probably the easiest to understand. Grapes are picked so late that the sugars build up and residual sugar remains after the fermentation process. Ice wine, a style founded in Germany and there referred to as eiswein, is an extreme late harvest wine, produced from grapes frozen on the vine, and pressed while still frozen, resulting in a higher concentration of sugar. It is becoming a specialty of Canada as well, where it takes on the English name of ice wine.
Vin Santo, literally “holy wine,” is a Tuscan sweet wine made from drying the local white grapes Trebbiano Toscano and Malvasia in the winery and not pressing until somewhere between November and March.
Rutherglen is an historic wine region in northeast Victoria, Australia, famous for its fortified Topaque and Muscat with complex tawny characteristics.
Situated in the southeastern corner of Napa Valley in the Vaca range, the vineyards of the Coombsville AVA enjoy a long growing season mitigated by cool, San Pablo Bay fog.