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Napa Valley Fumé Blanc
Item number: 004 134
Name: Napa Valley Fumé Blanc
Region: USA - California
Producer: Robert Mondavi
Grapes: 92% Sauvignon Blanc 8% Semillon
Color: White
Maturity enjoy:
Description: Color: clear straw yellow with golden highlights Aroma: elegant bouquet with intense primary aromas (lemon grass) next to delicate hints of linden flowers, herbs (sage) and spices taste: on the palate full-bodied, with lots of juicy fruit (yellow peach), beautifully rounded and smooth , aromatic, concentrated and expressive
Serving suggestion: as an elegant aperitif, with fine canapés with smoked salmon or trout fillet, fresh pasta with seafood, fish (grilled or beurre blanc), and goat cheese
Serving temperature: 10.00 ° C
Analytical Data: Alcohol: 13.90%
Residual sugar: 8.80 g / l
Acidity: 6.60 g / l
perfectly ready to drink: now
Preparation: To the lively vine fruit in the wine completely capture are the grapes in the winery immediately gently pressed on the whole, and starts the fermentation: 68% of the musts are fermented in French oak barriques, the remaining 32% in stainless steel tank, the natural Sauvignon Fresh to preserve the wine. After completion of fermentation the wines for four months in French oak barrels (6% new) expanded on the lees. This gives them the regular stirring of the Feinhefelagers (so-called bâtonnage) more melting and volume. The addition of 8% Sémillon underlines this aromatic fullness and completes the Fumé Blanc with a gorgeous silky texture.
General: In 1966, Robert Mondavi was preparing his first Fumé Blanc and coined the new name at the same time a new style of wine: one in the barrel fermented and developed, dry Sauvignon Blanc. Forty years later this is also Mondavi Fumé Blanc 2008 continues innovative tradition.
Bottle size: 0,75 l
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