The wine is soft, with a demure and velvety texture, and the palate expression is uncannily like just-ripe apricot, with its bare fruit flavors and evocations of sunshine. This is not a citrusy wine, not lemony or tropical, not even very fruity. It earns its merits instead from the complexity of its aromatics (herbs, salt, summer breeze), texture (saline), and distant finish (more of same, plus something minty-savory).
Serve it at about 55°F to 60°F, which lets it relax into an accessible loose-jointedness, and pair it with nuanced, light-handed cuisine — nothing too salty or rich or strident: mild young cow’s milk cheese, white-fleshed fish or shellfish, poached chicken, chickpeas with olive oil and mint.
2017 Massican Annia White Wine Napa Valley
12.5% abv | $30 (sample)
Huh. I somehow missed this one in 2017. Oh well. Sounds delicious!
Fairly new release! I received it in mid-May.
Yeah, I ended up with just Hyde and Gemina. Real sob story, huh.