White Wines That Aren’t What They’re Supposed To Be: Breaking Routines To Start The Summer Sipping Season Right
by Cathy Huyghe via Forbes.com
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2020 Ser Dry Orange Muscat
This bottle arrived in the latest shipment from Amy Bess Cook’s WOW (Women Owned Wineries) project, which in itself breaks new ground. As Cook writes in her notes introducing this month’s shipment, she was compelled by winemaker Nicole Walsh’s “offbeat varieties, lesser-known growing regions, and coastal influence in Ser wines,” in this case Pear Valley Vineyard in Paso Robles on California’s Central Coast. Chances are good that, if you’ve tasted the muscat grape, you’ll associate it with sweetness on both the nose and the palate. Walsh’s 2020 bottling is indeed aromatic (“a heady fragrance and flavors of orange blossom, pear and citrus rind” is Cook’s description) but it’s the surprise of the dry finish that woke up parts of my palate from a too-long slumber.