Predictably, this is an aromatic wine, its perfume a drift of sweet flowers and shimmery tropical fruits, while a sense of oiled stone keeps it grounded. The body is shot with juicy acidity and finishes in a blaze of citrus peels and pineapple, but there’s enough complexity for interestingness: sense of petrichor, some tannins, good weight.
This is a solid wine for seafood raw or cooked, and is also good with milky young cheeses, especially of goat’s milk. Try it with cuisine inflected with ginger, citrus, lemongrass, coconut milk, chilis.
Eight hundred cases were made. The end.
2016 Clos du Val Proprietary White Wine Napa Valley
13.9% abv | $45 (I paid about $20 on a close-out sale)
