PORT PRODUCTION
Great Port-style wine is a result of the marriage of high quality grape brandy with luscious and aromatic wine. Our White Portstyle wine production begins with the production of grape brandy. Each spring we evaluate our Viognier barrels from the previous vintage and determine if any will be destined for brandy distillation for our white port program. If we have any perfect barrels they are sent to the distillery to become the brandy. Then it is time to focus on the harvest of our Viognier grapes. These grapes are harvested at approximately 28 Brix, pressed, and fermented cold and slow to preserve aromatics. When the appropriate amount of sugar has been converted to alcohol we stop fermentation with the addition of our grape spirits made the previous spring. The resulting wine is aged in French oak barrels for 3 to 4 years before it is bottled and released.


Tasting Notes
This medium-to-full bodied port-style dessert wine begins with wonderful aromas of geranium, orange blossoms, white peach and lychee fruit. A soft, silky entry on the palate expresses flavors of lemon curd, baked bread, oily nuts and tangy golden raisins. Pair our White Port with Marcona almonds or mix it with tonic as an apéritif.

Alcohol: 18.4% by volume
Residual Sugar: 9.4%

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