White

Viognier

Umpqua Valley · Southern Oregon · United States

Fact sheet

grilled fish · fruit salads · roast chicken · soft cheeses · shrimp

201691 pts

Stainless steel fermented and bone-dry, this leesy, creamy wine balances lime, lemon and grapefruit flavors. Those citrus notes roll through richer dried apricot tones and into a balanced, persistent finish. Drink now and over the next two years.
201589 pts

For some tasters this will seem too ripe, with its liquorous aromatics and burn in the back of the throat. That said, it's loaded with dense fruit flavors of peach and pear, and buoyed with sufficient acidty to keep from feeling at all flabby or fat.
200789 pts

Stainless-steel fermentation and picking the grapes at a relatively low brix (24.2) yields a crisp wine with lime skin, grapefruit and hints of quinine. The opening flavors extend into a mid-palate cut with tart acids and adding white peach, melon and nectarine to the fruit. It…