Late Harvest Viognier
Our Highlighted Wine Club Wine At WineShop At Home, our goal is to bring new and interesting wines you never knew you liked to your door each and every month. With this month’s shipment, we bring you our recent Late Harvest Viognier that is a new arrival to the WineShop At Home family of wines. Here is some wine education on late harvest wines designed to satisfy your curiosity about our Late Harvest Viognier:
Late harvest is a term applied to wines made from grapes that are left on the parent plant longer than usual. As a result, the fruit develops more sugars, and the resulting wine is much sweeter and richer than other wines. Late harvest is usually an indication of a sweet dessert wine, such as late harvest Viognier. Late harvest grapes are often more similar to raisins, but have been naturally dehydrated while on the vine.
Wine grapes are usually harvested at maturity in the early fall for processing into wine. When grapes are harvested, their sugar content or “brix” is measured; the higher the sugar content, the sweeter the end product will be. After harvesting, the grapes are turned into a late harvest wine through pressing, fermentation, and aging.
This Late Harvest Viognier (pronounced Vee-ohn-yay) benefited from the cool ocean breezes common to the Edna Valley. The “late harvest” wines are a style of dessert wine that is characterized by the varietal of grape being left longer in the vineyard resulting in riper grapes. These particular grapes were harvested late in October and fermented cold to preserve the ripe crisp flavor. The fermentation was then arrested with 3.5 percent residual sugar remaining, which creates the sweeter dessert wine. The wine was aged cold for seven months to prevent spontaneous fermentation. This wine should be consumed within four years of release.
Our 2009 Ceres Edna Valley Late Harvest Viognier has aromas of honey, citrus, orange blossom and peach with hints of caramel and lemon peel. The fruity flavors are light and refreshing with a balanced sweetness. The mouth-feel is on the light side of dessert wines and the finish is long and fruity with just the right amount of acidity. Enjoy this wine with a fruit tart, pears poached in white wine, cream cheese or peach sorbet.
Try this Ceres 2009 Edna Valley Late Harvest Viognier today!
Mama Loves Wine!
Happy Mother’s Day For Wine Lovin’ Mamas
Women account for nearly 64% of all wine consumed in America. Yes, indeed, mama loves wine! Women often experience wine in different ways than men. According to Matt Kramer of Wine Spectator, “Women notice more details and appreciate more subtle nuances than men. Sometimes, it’s a learned response but in this instance nature trumps nurture. Females have more taste buds than males, which makes them inherently “better tasters.” Well, if not better tasters, women are surely great wine lovers and drinkers.
Women – who often focus on “We, not me,” often go out of their way to serve the perfect wine so that her friends, family and guests are satisfied, happy and fulfilled. She thinks about what she will be serving the wine with (food pairing and recipes included with each wine) and whom she will be sharing it with. She knows the bottle she pops and pours can lead to memories that will last forever.
This Mother’s Day Give all the Mamas in your life – the Mama Mamas, the Auntie Mamas, the Sister Mamas, the Hot Mamas, The BFF Mamas…any and all wine lovin’ mamas what they love. Think Mama. Think Wine. Think Red. Think White. Think Sweet. Think Light. Think Rich. Think Spicy. Think Memory. Give Thanks for Mamas who love Wine.
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Some suggestions to suit the palate of your Mother:
For “Light and Sweet” try our:
Frisch 2009 Anderson Valley Riesling
Nouveau Muse 2009 California Rosato
Milano Cellars 2008 California Dolcetto
For “White and Crisp” try our:
EVO 2009 Clarksburg Albariño
Tilden Peak Cellars 2009 Edna Valley Grenache Blanc
Milano Cellars 2008 Napa Valley Pinot Grigio
For Reds try our:
EVO 2008 North Coast Cabernet Franc
Somersville Cellars 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon
Nouveau Muse 2008 Los Carneros Tempranillo
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In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well-being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.
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A jazzy, spring ready selection of recent releases by Mundovibe Editor, John C. Tripp.
This week’s music Mix to Sip to is from Mundovibe World Music Guide. This mix is chill, jammy with spicey notes. A great balance of sweet beats, a little bite and full bodied. Enjoy it with this moment, right now, at dusk, on a Sunday afternoon, just before finishing work for the day, just as you get home from work in the evening and as you uncork that new bottle you’ve been waiting to savor ….
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The Image of Wine. This PhotoSet really captured the singular, quiet moments of VinoVie, the wine life, for me. Thank you ‘antociano’ and ‘whatdanasaid’.
As of late I’ve been obsessing with wine. Not so much on the drinking (though I do enjoy a glass or two…) but on the photographing. Seeing how light reacts with liquid is always an interesting experiment because if any element of the photograph (camera, light, liquid, photographer) moves everything changes.
~ images by ‘whatdanasaid’ from All Things Matter tumblerblog
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Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
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Located at the crest of Olive Hill overlooking the city of Los Angeles, Barnsdall Art Park had its beginning in the early 1900’s when Aline Barnsdall came West with plans to develop a theatre company. When Aline Barnsdall donated the Park and its Frank Lloyd Wright designed structures to the City of Los Angeles in 1927, she wished to provide an accessible arts center, incorporating and preserving the famous Hollyhock House as a vital component. The spirit of Barnsdall’s intention was to maintain an active arts center for the community was assured longevity.
Summer Wine Tasting at Barnsdall Art Park
Los Angeles is Wonderful. Barnsdall Art Park has been open to the public since 1927 with the intention being to promote and provide arts & performance education for kids and adults in Los Angeles. To raise funds to keep arts education alive, Barnsdall Art Park Foundation partnered with Silverlake Wine (my fav wine shop in L.A.) to host Summer Wine Tastings. Every Friday, hundreds of cool 20 to 30-somethings, many who come with small kids, lay out their blankets, unpack their cheeses and olives and line up for the four boutique wines that are served with your $15 advance purchase ticket. Wine themes have ranged from New World to Old World, wines from Washington and wines all from one winery. Although the Summer is over, stay tuned for next year. This was definitely a weekly event for us and one not to miss.
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