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2008 Grenache Blanc, Sonoma County, Dry Creek Valley, Estate Bottled, Owl Hill Vineyard
$27.00 per bottle (only 24.30 when you buy a case or more)
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Tasting Notes:
Pear, peach, crisp apple, orange, nuts, grapefruit, apricot, lemon zest. Ripe fruit flavors with some butterscotch and fresh peach juice character. Lingering complex finish.
The Grape:
A rare grape in California Grenache Blanc is best known in the whites from the Southern Rhone Valley Appellation of Chateauneuf du Pape. It performs excellently on very poor soils, like those in Owl Hill Vineyard.
The Vineyard:
Frick's Estate Owl Hill Vineyard, is on the south-facing hillsides near the winery. This tiny vineyard’s ground is rock, gravel and clay from decomposed Dry Creek Conglomerate soil. In this soil the vines have very low vigor and they produce a limited crop with distinctive, full, rich and classic Grenache Blanc character.
The Wine:
This wine is 100% Grenache Blanc. Aromas are fresh and fruity. The flavors are mouth filling, complex and lingering. No oak in the wine focuses the fresh fruit character. Very rarely grown in California.
Serve with:
Kumamoto oysters on half shell, fresh fruit salad, Vietnamese spring rolls, baked apple, crab, steamed lobster, monkfish, cold pasta salad.
Drink now to 2016.
110 cases made.
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