Gorgeous golden straw color. Ripe pear, cantaloupe, honeysuckle and a touch of mixed tropical fruit sweet vanilla. Nice vibrant acidity awakens the palate which leads into a rich, full and lush mid-palate with flavors of pear honey tart, vanilla and a bit of floral spice. Lush and inviting, this is sure to be a crowd pleaser.
Grapes are from Les Gosses and Hedges Estate vineyards. Crushed on 9/24/16, foot stomped and then pressed to 2 New Seguin Moreau Icone American Oak barrels, 2 Le Grande Lumineuse French Oak barrels and 4 stainless steel barrels. Fermentation finished on 10/3. One barrel went through malo-lactic Fermentation in the oak barrels while stirring lees every three days. After malo-lactic fermentation was complete we put everything into stainless steel barrels and DLD Le Blanc was born. Wine stayed in barrel until bottling.
Harvest Notes: 2016 had a very mild and warm winter followed by a wet Spring with a few heat spikes early on in May. Summer had an average amount of heat, but nothing like what we saw in 2015. A few rain events throughout the growing season made regulating irrigation water a bit tricky. The first part of harvest had mild heat which made for steady and even ripening of the fruit. The end of harvest was hit with off and on rain for a few weeks, which really slowed things down and stretched out picking dates. The 2016 harvest resulted in large crops with impressive fruit quality.
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