Ripe apple and pear flavors with hints of toasted oak and caramel apple. Impressive balance and length. Look for fresh applesauce, lemon custard, toasted baguette, and roasted hazelnut aromas. The flavors are a creamy apple trimmed with the firm mineral acidity expected from a cool, maritime climate. The finish flavors last a long time and move from fresh apple to a spicy toastiness.
Delicious sparkler is still available in magnum size bottles, perfect for parties.
It is the New World's first Blanc de Blanc made entirely from small cluster Dijon clone Chardonnay. The grapes were grown in a select, high elevation block of the Knudsen Vineyard. A portion of the base wine was barrel fermented and then malolactic fermented. Aromas of fresh ripe apples and Asian pears, limes and melons, with overtones of vanilla bean and toasted hazelnuts. The mouth-filling flavors deliver lime, citrus blossoms, and ripe melons.