SOURCING
Lonesome Spring Vineyard, 100% Orange Muscat
WINEMAKING
This small lot of grapes comes from a highly skilled grape grower, so the flavor that comes from them is amazing! Once fermenting, this juice is watched closely, as when it reaches around 10% residual sugar, the fermentation is stopped, to leave the wine sweet. The wine was fermented in stainless steel tanks at cooler temperatures, to retain its fruit forward characteristics. A higher acid level in the wine was left to keep it from cloying, but fresh on the palate. The wine temperature never gets above 38 degrees, which keeps the CO2, produced during fermentation, from dissipating, giving a slight effervescence to the wine.
WINEMAKERS
Mike Conway and Natalie Conway-Barnes
TASTING NOTES
Using the Orange Muscat grape produces a wine filled with aromas of sweet orange blossom, fresh jasmine, and spun honey. Slightly effervescent, flavors of honeysuckle and orange cream flood your mouth, while sweet jasmine nuances linger long after the wine is gone. A crisp acid level keeps this wine from being cloying.
FOOD PAIRING
Enjoy this wine well chilled as an aperitif, with a fruit and cheese platter, or as an accompaniment to Ellena’s Mushroom Tart recipe, available online at
www.latahcreek.com/recipes.
