Channing Daughters White Mix (4)

Monday, February 25, 2013

I know, I know, double standards are horrible. But I was a young wine connoisseur once, man. I know what we’re like when you hit a certain legal drinking age, and that’s not the kind of person I want around my Daughters, no sir.

So call me overprotective, if you like. You just don’t know what it’s like having a Channing Daughters White Wine Mixed Pack around. You get anxious. Paranoid, even. Every wine drinker in the world become a predator just waiting for you to turn your back on your wine cellar to get at the lovely, alluring flavors and aromas of pears, white flowers, minerals, and spice of the 2010 Pinot Grigio 750ml 2-Pack.

And I won’t just let anyone come over to spend time with my 2008 Mosaico 750ml 2-Pack, oh no. I’ve got to know that person, that person’s parents, even their grandparents if they’re around. I need to be able to get a sense that they respect and understand just how special their delicate apple and citrus flavors, dry palate, and light mineral finish are. I want my Daughters to be appreciated, not just guzzled down and thrown aside. That may be fine for some other guy’s box wines, but not for MY Daughters, no way.

Now then, if you’ll excuse me, I need to finish setting up the surveillance system and digging the cellar pit traps. You can never be too careful, you know.

Total MSRP:         $ 113.00

2010 Pinot Grigio 750ml 2-Pack

• Appellation: AVA Long Island, NY
• Vineyard Designation: none, sourced from CDW Estate in Bridgehampton and the Mudd West vineyard on the North Fork.
• Blend: 88% Pinot Grigio 12% Chardonnay
• Vineyard: Sylvanus Vineyard, Scuttlehole Vineyard, Brick Kiln Vineyard and Mudd West Vineyard
• Cooperage: 53% stainless steel barrels and 47% old/neutral French and Slovenian oak barrels
• Aging: 11 months on lees
• Harvested: by hand September 2nd and 7th 2010
• Bottled: by gravity August 5th 2011
• T.A.: 5.56g/L
• pH: 3.5
• Alcohol: 12.5%
• Free SO2: 33ppm
• Residual Sugar: dry
• Production: 1160 cases

For Channing Daughters 2010 version all the fruit was hand-harvested, whole-cluster pressed, fermented in both stainless steel barrels (53%) and older French and Slovenian oak barrels (47%). The wine was handled minimally and bottled by gravity (after eleven months on its lees) in August 2011. Comprised of 88% Pinot Grigio and 12 % Chardonnay the wine possesses medium-plus body, moderate alcohol, medium acidity and a long juicy, satisfying finish. The 2010 Pinot Grigio features fruit from both Channing Daughters’ home farm in Bridgehampton and from the Mudd West vineyard on the North Fork, hence the blended Long Island AVA. 

2008 Mosaico 750ml 2-Pack

• Appellation: AVA The Hamptons, Long Island
• Vineyard Designation: field blend from Mosaico block, Sylvanus Vineyard
• Blend:
  6% Gewurztraminer
  7% Tocai Friulano
  12% Muscat Ottonel
  4% Sauvignon Blanc
  29% Chardonnay
  32% Pinot Grigio
• Vineyard: Sylvanus vineyard, CDW Estate, Bridgehampton
• Cooperage: Stainless Steel Tank 64%, New oak 16%, neutral/old oak 20%
• Aging: 10 months on lees
• Harvested: by hand September 24, 2008
• Bottled: by gravity August 7, 2009
• T.A.:  6.45g/L
• pH: 3.35
• Alcohol: 12.5%
• Free SO2: 26ppm
• Residual Sugar: dry
• Production: 598 cases

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