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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 1 note) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Snoman on 12/26/2009 & rated 88 points: Popped at a party....label describes Fuji apple & bosc pear notes correctly. Everyone enjoyed. Nice, if subtle, nose, terrific on palate with medium and pleasant finish. Lacks just a bit of acidity, but otherwise nicely balanced. (1421 views) |
| By Randy Caparoso
Sommelier Journal, August 2008
(Bokisch Vineyards Albariño Clements Hills, Lodi) It might not make sense that a California Albariño should cost twice as much as a Spanish Albariño, but this wine is more than worth your guests’ attention. It’s a true breakthrough wine—the first American-grown Albariño to capture the crisp-yet-lithe, balanced, flowing stone-fruit qualities that come so easily to Spanish growers, but with unique, tropical, creamy-textured California accents (although the Bokisch sees no oak). It has a pure, almost epiphanic deliciousness, bursting from the core with flowery, wild-honeyed, apple-pear fragrances and mandarin-rind nuances that transition into a fresh-grapefruit, vivid-fruit lushness on the palate. This Albariño is sourced from Clements Hills at the far eastern edge of Lodi, a terroir extending into the lower Sierra Foothills. Hot Picks |
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| Bokisch Vineyards Producer websiteAlbariño Varietal character (Appellation America)
Albariño (Galician pronunciation: [albaˈɾiːɲo]) or Alvarinho (Portuguese: [alvaˈɾiːɲo]) is a variety of white wine grape grown in Galicia (northwest Spain) and Monção (northwest Portugal), where it is used to make varietal white wines.
Albariño is actually the Galician name for the grape, with Albarín Blanco an occasional synonym. In Portugal it is known as Alvarinho, and sometimes as Cainho Branco. [1]
It was presumably brought to Iberia by Cluny monks in the twelfth century. Its name "Alba-Riño" means "the white from Rhine" and it has locally been thought to be a Riesling clone originating from the Alsace region of France, although earliest known records of Riesling as a grape variety date from the 15th, rather than the 12th, century. It is also theorized that the grape is a close relative of the French grape Petit Manseng. [2]
It should not be confused with the Alvarinho Liláz grape of Madeira.USAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Central Valley The Central California Winegrowers (Official site) | Central Valley (California Wine Institute)Lodi Lodi Woodbridge Winegrape Commission | Lodi District Grape Growers Association |
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