Pride Vineyards White Collection - 2 bottles of white: 2017 Chardonnay 2019 Viognier

PRIDE MOUNTAIN VINEYARDS

2019 VIOGNIER

This luscious wine exudes fragrances of peach, lemon zest, nectarine, gardenia and dried rose petal. The palate is round and balanced, possessing a delightful tension between the unctuous classically-viognier character upfront and a refreshing tingly verve on the long finish.

Farming viognier is no simple task. It is more susceptible than other grape varieties to vineyard woes including frost damage, springtime fungus, poor set and sunburn. To achieve a balanced vine canopy, we cane prune in a way unique to our viognier vines. Our vineyard crew spends much more time in each acre of viognier than they do in any acre of our cabernet sauvignon. The fruits of such labor in 2019 is a wine with gorgeous synergy between its various aromatic and structural components. The 2019 Viognier was fermented in entirely neutral French oak barrels (5 - 10 years old) and then aged on its lees, with periodic battonage, for four months prior to bottling on Valentine’s Day of 2020.

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2017 CHARDONNAY
This crisp, elegant beauty is exuberantly aromatic, with notes of lemon curd, honeysuckle, rose oil, kaffir lime,
melon and pear. The palate is bright, with characteristic acidity, viscosity on the mid-palate and a lovely
lingering finish.
Our portfolio has long included two chardonnays: our “Chardonnay”, traditionally made from fruit sourced
from the southern end of the Napa Valley, and our “Vintner Select Chardonnay”, sourced from the Sonoma side
of our estate vineyard. Beginning with the 2017 vintage, we are blending into our Napa Chardonnay two new
vineyard sources located in Sonoma County. Production is intended to remain the same, but as we sought a
replacement for a Napa Valley vineyard that was starting to show its age, the quality of two vineyards located
in Sonoma County was impossible to resist. As a result, our “Chardonnay” will be labeled with the percentage
of grapes sourced in each county. Winemaking remains consistent, with fermentation in French oak barrels,
20% new, and malolactic fermentation at a level of 30%.