2000 Semillon de Soleil


The color is a surprisingly light straw hue due to the perfect green firmness of the grapes at crush. The caramel aroma wafting up from your glass will entice you to begin sipping immediately! It has a very fresh and light feeling in the mouth without the dried fruit flavors we usually expect with the Semillon de Soleil. The residual sugar is 9%, a little lower than usual, and the alcohol is 14.8%, a little higher than usual due to the grapes being riper than usual at crush at 38% sugar. Two Dog Vineyard in Calistoga, owned by our friends Ellis and Anne Hunter Hamilton, supplied us with slightly more than half the grapes. Should you feel compelled to drink this wine with dessert, head for stone fruits such as apricots, nectarines, and peaches or vanilla ice cream or anything you would enjoy inundating with caramel sauce. We guarantee that the 2000 Semillon de Soleil will have a similar effect!
Farming:
dry-farmed
Age of vines:
46 years at Stony Hill Vineyard, 15 years at Two Dog Vineyard
Appellation:
Napa Valley
Varietal:
100% Semillon
Grapes:
40% grown at Stony Hill Vineyard; 60% grown at Two Dog Vineyard in Calistoga
Harvest date:
9/18-20
Dehydration time:
15 days drying in sun on wooden prune trays before crushing
Fermentation time:
21 days in old French oak barrels
Aging time:
6 months in old French oak barrels
Bottling date:
6/14/01
Total Acidity:
.69%
Residual Sugar:
9.0%
Alcohol:
14.8%
Aging Potential:
10 years +
Cases produced:
254 - 12 packs of 375 ml bottles
Release date:
September 2002
Price at winery:
$15.00 per bottle
 

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