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Wine Details
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Description:
French vinifera white grape variety originally grown in the northeast Moselle and Alsace regions of France. This everyday wine produces a mildly acidic light bodied wine with a floral boquet and hint of spice. Tarsitano Winery Auxerrois is presented in a pinot blanc style. This means that the wine has been allowed to complete malo latic fermentation in an old french oak barrel giving it a butter soft middle and light spice finnish.
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Varietal Definition
Auxerrois:
French local name for the Malbec, aka Cot red wine grape species grown in the Cahors region of France and also, confusingly, an important white wine grape in the Alsace region called the Auxerrois Blanc that is distinct from another locally grown white wine grape called the Auxerrois Gris that is actually the Pinot Gris varietal grape.
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Pinot Blanc:
White grape popular for the dry white wines it produces. Increasingly grown in California, the Northwest, Northeast, Canada.
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