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Wine Details
Price:
$14.00 per bottle
Description:
The Santa Lucia Highlands is an ideal growing region for Riesling. Its marine moderated climate and sandy gravel soils deliver a crisp acidity and firm minerality to the wine. Crafted in the classic off-dry style, with a bouquet of bright apricot and passion fruit, our Riesling is an excellent match for fresh California Golden Trout or South Pacific Ahi. Enjoy this rare treat from your winemaker and avid fisherman.
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Varietal Definition
Riesling:
On the sweeter end of the spectrum, some of the best dessert wines should give thanks to the Riesling varietal. Riesling is known for its complementary nature of combining balanced acidity with sugar. Rieslings are made dry to sweet, but it is the sweet style Riesling that brought about its popularity in the United States. With the rise of spicy sauces, marinades and dips to flavor our meal, Riesling plays a part in taking off the edge of the heat. Riesling is known for a number of signature characteristics: floral, citrus and pear. Riesling has peaked in California with 11,000 acres planted. Today, Monterey County’s cool-climate areas and its long growing season produce good amounts of character for the Riesling grape. Outside of
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