Oak 0 / Body 5 / Sweetness 1
Lazy Lizard Vineyard, Yakima Valley, Washington
(PEE-noh GREE; Also known as PINOT GRIGIO)
Winner of 3 Golds in 2008. Displays aromatic notes of green apple and lemon against a floral and honeyed background. Cellar Crafts natural Flavour Reserve creates a rich mouth-feel with tangy fruit acid balancing the hint of sweetness. Floral and mineral notes persist in the lingering finish. The wine’s full character and charm become most apparent after several months of bottle aging. Should show well for up to 18 months.
A good choice for foods rich in butter and oil, garlic and lively spices. Consider for shrimp, crab and fish dishes; rich pastas; cannelloni with ricotta, chicken and most Chinese and Thai dishes. Serve lightly chilled.
THEY BEGIN IN THE VINEYARD
Exceptional grapes are used for Cellar Craft's Showcase Collection. Most are harvested from specific blocks of named vineyards. All are given exceptional care during processing to ensure that all of the desirable character is retained and that no undesirable qualities are introduced. Care starts in the vineyards where they stipulate that yields must be controlled to less than 3 tons per acre. Intensity of flavors is preserved. The grapes are crushed and pressed in small batches using gentle bladder presses. No bitterness is introduced through overly aggressive juice extraction. The juices are settled only by gravity. No fining agents, filters or centrifuges are used. This leaves all of the desirable solids in the juices so that they can impart their flavours and esters into the wine during fermentation. The juices typically go from the vine to freezers, at -18 degrees, in less than 24 hours. No sugars have been added to the must.
No non-grape flavors, esters or botanicals have been added to the kit. Cellar Craft hopes you will agree that this attention to quality produces wines like you have never before experienced from a kit or bought juices.
Note: Minimum processing creates superior flavours and aromatics but you may occasionally encounter “wine diamonds” in the bottle or glass, especially if the wine was over-chilled or stored several days in the refrigerator. These are natural, tasteless, harmless and inert. Simply pour the wine, gently trying to leave the crystals in the bottle.
16L, more juice format.
Kit is ready to bottle in six weeks.
CELLARCRAFT WINE LEGEND Oak
0 – Unoaked
1 – American Toasted
2 – American Untoasted
3 – French
4 – Hungarian Shavings
5 – Hungarian Oak Cubes
6 – Acacia Wood Cubes
7 – Hungarian medium toasted cubes
8 – Hungarian natural oak shavings
Body
1 – Light
2 – Light/Medium
3 – Medium
4 – Full
5 – Very Full
Sweetness
0 – Dry
1 – Off Dry (230mL flavour reserve)
2 – Sweet (470mL flavour reserve)
6 – Very Sweet (2.0L flavour reserve)
10 – Dessert Wine
