It is no secret that Vinomaker loves Viognier, so I thought I'd try to find something a little out of the ordinary for him to drink. The Trump Winery, 2015 Viognier (Monticello AVA) fit the bill perfectly. (Yes, that's correct, I did indeed type T.R.U.M.P.) Obviously, anything to do with the name Trump is very controversial at the moment, but, please, don't shoot the messenger.
Winemaker Jonathon Wheeler (who, according to his bio, has worked in wineries in Sonoma, CA) has crafted a really pretty Viognier from fruit grown on the Trump Winery estate which is located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Planted to 200 acres of Vitis vinifera varieties, the Trump Winery's vineyard is Virginia's largest vineyard and the largest planting of V. vinifera on the East Coast. (That's huge. Huge.)
A fairly typical Viognier, this wine had oodles of orange blossom, honeysuckle and apricot on the nose, and a strange (but strange in a good way) caramel-apple lollipop richness on the palate. The wine was a tiny bit flabby, but was otherwise well-balanced.
I bought this wine on Amazon as it was slightly less expensive to buy the wine through Amazon than directly from the winery. However, it was still shipped from the winery in Virginia. Vinomaker and I paired this wine with a chicken salad, not Hispanic food (titter, titter).
5 comments:
VG: Who knows, if I "rub-shoulders" with VG long enough, I'll be able to write wonderful reviews like this! First it was Fun, Factual, and a Fantastically whimsical piece of writing! Well, maybe I'm overstating this a tiny-tiny bit, but when you put the elbow-grease to a review, it's always wonderful; at least compared to: "The wine had no outstanding qualities." ;)
funny girl.
NHW: Thanks for the rave review :)
Thud: Just trying to make wine reviews great again :)
"Thud: Just trying to make wine reviews great again"
Funny, VG.
Tomasso: Thanks :)
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