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Twice a year, the sun crosses the celestial equator, resulting in a day and night of equal length. These occurrences...
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Crushed red fruit and clay on the nose. Full-to medium-bodied with well-structured tannins. Juicy, ripe red and black...
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Aromas of redcurrants, blackberries, sliced plums and smoking tobacco. Full-bodied with fine, soft tannins. Black and...
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Good entrance filling the mouth with bright Mendocino fruit and spiciness. The finish is smoky and smooth making this...
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Aroma : Just-Pickup blackberry, italian plum, lavender.
Flavor : Mulberry, violette liqueur, chai spice.
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This smooth dry red wine blend combines three varietals to create a richly colored wine wtih a distinct...
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This wine is inspired by the Italian farming tradition where grapes were planted on the poorer soils of the uplifted...
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This concentrated kitchen chameleon carries our banner for California crowd-pleasers. Year after year, excellent...
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This concentrated kitchen chameleon carries our banner for California crowd-pleasers. Year after year, excellent...
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The 2021 GSM is fabulous. Bright and effusive, with tons of energy, the GSM captures all the natural vibrancy of the...
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A gutsy little blend, with snappy cherry, tobacco and licorice flavors that finish with zesty tannins. Zinfandel,...
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This bold and bright old-vine field blend combines ripe black fruit with tart red-fruit flavors for a vibrant...
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This full-bodied wine is rich with ripe fruits: blackberry, boysenberry, raspberry, cranberry and black currant,...
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This Estate red blend has aromas of bright red fruit. A lush entry of red and black berries with a hint of spice &...
Ice Wine Red Blend Savatiano United States California Mendocino County
Savatiano is probably Greece's most well known and most widely grown grape varietal, as it is the primary grape used in the production of Retsina, where the fermenting juices of the Savatiano varietal are flavored with pine resin in order to make this distinctive and famous wine. One of the reasons for the wide cultivation of this grape is due to its hardiness, and resistance to drought conditions. In the sun-drenched and dry, rocky Greek landscapes, this makes it an ideal vine to grow for wine-makers who require a strong and bounteous yield each year.
However, there are plenty of examples of Greek white wines which use the Savatiano grape but withhold from the addition the pine resin flavoring, allowing the true characteristics of this varietal to shine through. The result is often very pleasing indeed, with Savatiano grapes generally producing extremely well balanced and rounded white wines, with a juicily fruity flavor. Their aromas can vary quite a lot, with many Savatiano wines bearing the fragrance of citrus fruits, and also occasionally having a strong floral aroma reminiscent of elder and rose. Due to the relatively low acidity of Savatiano grapes, the wines which use them (including Retsina) generally bolster themselves with the addition of smaller quantities of more acidic varieties, such as Assyrtiko or Rhoditis, in order to improve their sometimes weak structure.
Additional Information on Greek Wines
Greek Wines
Ancient Greek Wines – A Brief History of Wine in Greece
The Myth of Dionysus, Greek God of Wine
What is Retsina?
Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.
California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.