Mont de Marie Anatheme Blanc -
A few days of skin contact, so while this is technically an orange wine it is not funky and will appeal to all fans of dry, textural white wines.
Ugni Blanc (aka Trebbiano) and Viognier (co fermented)
Tasting Notes:
Marzipan, Meyer lemons, vanilla bean, almonds, medium bodied, nice texture
Co-planted vines in decomposed granite and gravel in the clearing of a forest.
70/80 years old.
hand picked
Direct press into concrete tank
spontaneous fermentation
Matured on the lees - half is aged for 6 months in steel tanks and the other half in 300 liter neutral oak barrels.
bottled unfined, unfiltered with little to no SO2.
Importer Steven Graff calls this wine the "perfect winter white."
