Oranges2017
Envelope
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The blend
Tastes of
ButterscotchBrown spiceHoneyMineralsPeachesPapayaApple
Tasting
Once a wine club member told us they were so enamored of the aromas and textures of our Envelope that they wanted to wear it like a perfume. The color, the aromas, the flavors, the textures all pulse with vitality. A white wine with color... made like a red...a white with tannin and structure...a full-bodied, broad wine with moderate alcohol and a cleansing, juicy quality with full malo-lactic fermentation! The flavors and aromas are reflective of dried apricots, peaches, honey, roses, lychees, brown spice, brown sugar, apple compote, minerals, butterscotch and dried papaya.
At the table
DuckPorkHard cheeseVegetables
This is a balanced, long wine that would be delicious with corn, squash, smoked ham, duck and figs, quince paste and cheese, seeds, root vegetables, caramelized flavors and most things porcine.
Description
Once a wine club member told us they were so enamored of the aromas and textures of our Envelope that they wanted to wear it like a perfume. This wine lives up to that desire.
And now...The Envelope, please...
This wine is electric! The color, the aromas, the flavors, the textures all pulse with vitality. Our 2017 Envelope is exotic, enticing, exciting and is all about paradox. A white wine with color... made like a red...a white with tannin and structure...a full-bodied, broad wine with moderate alcohol and a cleansing, juicy quality with full malo-lactic fermentation! This is fantastic stuff! Our 2017 Envelope is an intriguingly aromatic and an intoxicatingly delicious skin-fermented "orange" wine.
The flavors and aromas are reflective of dried apricots, peaches, honey, roses, lychees, brown spice, brown sugar, apple compote, minerals, butterscotch and dried papaya. These flavors only seem to intensify with oxygen as the wine expands after opening. This is nuts, yes there are those flavors too in this complex, inviting wine. Made from 73% Chardonnay, 23% Gewürztraminer and 4% Malvasia Bianca. This is a dry, full-bodied white that has a gorgeous psychedelic orange appearance. This is a balanced, long wine that would be delicious with corn, squash, smoked ham, duck and figs, quince paste and cheese, seeds, root vegetables, caramelized flavors and most things porcine. Not to mention a good Cioppino or Bouillabaisse or Chowder!
All the fruit was hand-harvested and was gently de-stemmed, crushed by foot and fermented on its skins. The wine was all co-fermented (all with wild/ambient yeast) for 18-25 days on its skins after which the wine was bucketed out and pressed off, then put in 50% new and 50% in old/neutral oak puncheons, barrels and hogsheads where the wine spent 38 months, yes 38, before it was bottled. Only 198 cases of this gem were produced!
Where it grew
The Hamptons, Long Island AVASouthampton and East Hampton
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