2017 Broc Cellars Tocai Friulano Amore Bianco Mendocino County

This is Broc Cellars’s first vintage of Tocai, the fruit sourced from Fox Hill Vineyard in Ukiah. Bottled in clear glass, the body is pale straw yellow but has thrown a fine sediment; as it’s poured, it clouds. Decant the first draft and taste, noticing the fragrance of white tree fruits and flowers, the lightly frizzante texture. (Broc doesn’t use much sulfite, so the wine’s likely to have experienced microbial activity after bottling. This is all perfectly fine.)

Then swirl the bottle to get the most out of the savory sediment. Now the wine has acquired an earthy, bruised apple savoriness, plus something like ginger beer and birch wood. Fully dry and somewhat soft, it’s reminiscent of Bosc pear flesh and skin, dried ginger, acacia honey. It’s evocative, like most Tocai, of autumn leaves, of senescence, but the spritzy gas and a parting bite of apple-y acidity enliven it.

Pair with light autumnal cuisine.

2017 Broc Cellars Tocai Friulano Amore Bianco Mendocino County

12% abv | $25; sold out | 125 cases made

California, Twelvish, White Wines, Wine ReviewsNovember 30, 2018<April 10, 2019

by Meg Maker

Savory Tocai Friulano from Mendocino

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2 replies on “2017 Broc Cellars Tocai Friulano Amore Bianco Mendocino County”

says: Lynn

December 5, 2018 at 8:05 am

What a nice description. Can you clarify white tree fruits, perhaps an example?
1. says: Meg Houston Maker
  
  December 5, 2018 at 8:29 am
  
  Hi Lynn, sorry to be glib. When I say “white tree fruits” I mean apple, pear, quince — that mellow, orchard-fruit flavor of the pale-flesh pomes.
  
  Thanks for reading,
  Meg

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2017 Broc Cellars Tocai Friulano Amore Bianco Mendocino County

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