Posts tagged White Wine
2020 Avenius Chardonnay

The Avenius Chardonnay has pungent floral aromas of yellow flowers and honeysuckle. It is medium bodied and quietly builds in concentration. It finishes long with an elegant but lingering acidity.

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2020 Hardscrabble Sauvignon Blanc

2020 is the second vintage of Hardscrabble Sauvignon Blanc. The Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon vines were planted in 2012. The first vintages from these young vines made good wine, but not to the level of a Linden single vineyard designation. The stars aligned in 2019 and 2020.

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2020 Linden Riesling

Vintage 2020 gave us a very different Riesling style. This wine is bone dry, similar to some Austrian or Australian Rieslings. It will also age well due to its bracing acidity. Aromas of yellow stone fruits, honey suckle, preserved lemon and petrol. On the palate the wine leads with some refreshing fruit, but then evolves with a push/pull of racy and nervous texture. It finishes with a bright, pithy lemon acidity.

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2020 Village Chardonnay

Primary, playful, and exuberant. Linden’s Village Chardonnays are produced from younger vines and certain parcels of each three of our vineyards. Vintage plays a significant role in their personality. These wines are pure and fresh and show well when young. 2020 was a classic year. You won’t find any butter, oak, or flabbiness.

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2020 Wabi Sabi

Wabi Sabi is a Japanese aesthetic that reveres the “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”. This reflects our philosophy behind the wine. It is a blend that is made without a plan. Decisions are made throughout elevage (aging) as we become familiar with the personality of each lot. This is unusual for traditional, conservative, methodical Linden Vineyards.

This is a big textured wine with a very generous mouth feel and a touch of sweetness. There is ample acidity and tannin length to carry its weight. Aromas and flavors include bee’s wax, apple skins, nutmeg and pear liqueur.

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