We had w/ out PearGallette last tasting:
1. WhitewaterHill ZeroBelow GrandVlly LateHrvst Chard Colorado (13.2%; SaH: 34 Brix; RS: 13.2 gm/100ml;
www.WhiteWaterHill.com) 2008: Light yellow color; slight peppery very intense grapey complex slight VA/pickle juice bit earthy intense passito clean interesting nose; rather tart intense grapey slight earthy/peppery quite sweet beautiful flavor; very long quite sweet very grapey fairly tart interesting finish; clean & very well-made passito-like dessert wine w/ no identifiable Chard character; $20.00/hlf (LM)
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2. Ch. Lafitte-Teston AC: Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh (10% PetiteCourbu/70%PetiteManseng/20% GrosManseng;
MeBaC; 13%) Maumusson 2007: Med.dark gold color; bit pungent/toasty/oak rather grapey/earthy/dusty bit funky slight volatile ripe/late harvesty/raisened bit herbal fairly interesting nose; soft some sweet grapey/late harvesty/passito earthy bit funky some angel food cake flavor; med.long late-harvesty/raisened/very grapy/passito bit funky/earthy strong angel food cake finish; a rather interesting passito-like dessert wine at a fair price.$28.00/500ml (LM)
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A wee BloodyPulpit:
1. WhitewaterHill: Their WebSite is one of the more bizarre wnry WebSites I've seen. It's difficuly to navigate and find out any information on the wines. I could not tell if this was a passito wine, a freezer ice-wine, or a natuural ice-wine. As best I can tell, the wine was made from Chard grapes left to hang on the vine late into the season and then hit by a frost. Yet the wine was quite clean and seemed more like a freezer ice wine w/ little evidence of raisened/late harvesty character in it. The site seems more focused on selling wine trinkets than wine itself. Strange.
Tom