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J. Lohr Valdiguie Wildflower

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$6.99

Year: 2007
Region: Monterey
Country: USA - California
Red Wine

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Valdiguie for many years was thought to be a clone of the Gamay grape famous for producing the fruit-filled wines of Beaujolais. Alas, geneological studies have proven otherwise but the wine still exhibits many of those classic flavors. Loaded with boysenberry and cherry flavors, this drinks like the best of the Cru Beaujolais! (LAWC)

Winery Notes:
VINTAGE
The 2007 vintage got off to a late start due to extremely cold weather in January which put our vines into a deep dormancy. Bud break occurred at the end of March – very unusual for Greenfield--and with the relatively mild spring and summer, harvest began at the end of October with the last Valdiguié harvested on November 1st. In our winemaking, our goal is to preserve Valdiguié’s wonderful natural acidity and fresh fruit flavors. We incorporate two different winemaking techniques to achieve this. First, we hand pick roughly 19% of the fruit and put these whole clusters directly into the fermenters in a winemaking process called carbonic maceration – no yeast or pumping over of the fruit is done. The other technique is to warm the destemmed fruit going to the fermenter and pump over and extract with fairly short, hot fermentations. These processes give the wine a remarkable similarity to the wines of the famed Beaujolais region with enticing berry fruit flavors, a vibrant color and soft tannins.

VALDIGUIÉ
Our 2007 J. Lohr Estates Wildflower Valdiguié was grown on Chualar loam soil in the Arroyo Seco appellation of Monterey County. Originally thought to be the Gamay Noir grape of France’s Beaujolais winegrowing region, U.C. Davis has since identified this grape to be Valdiguié from an area in the southwest of France. Regardless of its origin and identity, Valdiguié grown in the windy, cold Arroyo Seco produces a wine reminiscent of the ‘Crus’ of Beaujolais – Morgon, Fleurie and Moulin-a-Vent.

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