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Wine Details
Price:
$20.00 per bottle
Description:
In the tradition of Greece and Southern France, we offer you this fine Port made out of White Muscat grapes from the Willamette Valley. We aged this "Nectar of God" in 132-gallon French oak puncheons. It has intense, intoxicating peach, gooseberries, and licorice aromas and flavors of a soft caramel background. This wine is better consumed slightly chilled as an Aperitif, with almonds, walnuts, and pepper-stuffed green olives, with hot and spicy food, or blue cheese, or fresh, juicy pears, or a chocolate hazelnut cake for dessert. Seven hundred thirty 6-500ml bottle cases were produced.
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Varietal Definition
Muscat:
Muscat, thought to be one of the oldest grape varieties, is grown worldwide. It is vinified in a multitude of styles, from still to sparkling, and dry to sweet to fortified. Also called Moscato, Moscatel and Muskateller, it is a sweetly aromatic, fruity grape that has many genetic variations and colors. It probably originated in Greece but maybe the independent sultanate of Muscat in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula had something to do with it. Over 200 different varieties and derivatives to the Muscat family exist today. Muscat Canelli, Orange Muscat and Black Muscat are varieties most planted in California, which makes primarily still wine. More unusual is Muscat fermented to total dryness, which leaves greater alcohol levels and no residual sugar. Some Muscats are aged in oak to provide additional complexity.Today’s recommended Muscats represent many of these styles, so use the tasting notes and percent of residual sugar - listed if provided by the winery - to find a wine you’ll enjoy. The more sugar and the lower the alcohol, the sweeter the wine, though wines above 10 percent alcohol can also be somewhat sweet.
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