Fausse Piste, "Mineral Selection" Viognier

Fausse Piste, "Mineral Selection" Viognier - 2016

Item # 35605 750mL

A rich, full-bodied white with generous stone fruit flavors. The vines grow at a high altitude in cool climate in the Columbia River Gorge and the Applegate Valley. The wine is fermented with native yeasts and ages in a combination of steel tank, concrete and old French oak barrels.

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Viognier

Some of the most intriguing wines associated with the white Viognier grape contain hardly any Viognier at all: in the Côte Rôtie appellation, wine must be made principally from the red Syrah grape, but up to 20 percent (often far less) can be of white Viognier. The practice of adding Viognier to Syrah began as a way of taming the very ripe, tannic reds of the hot Côte Rôtie ("roasted slope"), but it produced such incredible results that other countries, most notably Australia, have followed...

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