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Monday, March 15, 2010

WILD, ROMANTIC, WHITE WINES

My friend, Kioka loves to attend wine tastings, and she is now a regular attendee at the WineStyles store located off Cascade Road, in Atlanta. Last week she fell in love with a 2007 Rhumba wine of the Dancing Coyote wines from California. As she described it, this wine was crisp and exciting. I found out that it is true. It is an off dry blend of Gewurztraiminer, Riesling, Chenin Blanc and Orange Muscat, which offers sweet honeysuckle fruit flavors that, according to her, can make you want to dance!

Dancing Coyote?...

The name in itself sounded fantastic, therefore I researched their wines, and I found a pretty cool story about the name of this California vineyard.

…” Legend has it, each year at the beginning of the growing season, a band of coyotes from the nearby foothills, sneak into our vineyards, and for no apparent reason other than treachery, chew on our irrigation lines with wild abandon. Following these scandalous acts, they have been known on occasion to join paws and dance around, howling at the moon in celebration”…(http://www.dancingcoyotewines.com)

This white wine belongs to the Clarksburg appellation, located on the Sacramento River in the Yolo County, California. The land there has a great climate system as the sun heats up during the day and at night the cool breeze from the bay, allows the vines to enjoy warm summer days with cool evenings. This type of climate is absolutely perfect to grow different white varietals.

My friend’s experience made me realize that I do not know much about this type of white blend, so I want to share with you what I learned:


Gewurztraiminer: Rhine, Alsace. It’s an aromatic wine grape variety with a pink to red skin color which makes it a white wine grape. This variety has high natural sugar and the wines are off-dry which match perfect with Asian food.

Riesling: Rhine, Alsace. It’s a white grape, perfumed and with high acidity. It may have aromas of green apple, grapefruit, peach and honey.
Chenin Blanc: Loire, France. This white grape can be used to make sparkling and dessert wines. The aromas include honey, peach and apple.

I might not be a coyote, but as a woman, I do love to drink a white wine, while dancing with my man under a magical white moon, barefoot, in the middle of a California vineyard…

It can’t get more romantic than that, right?




1 comment:

Sarah Louise said...

This is my favorite part of your article...
"I might not be a coyote, but as a woman, I do love to drink a white wine, while dancing with my man under a magical white moon, barefoot, in the middle of a California vineyard…" What girl doesn't want all the above! Cheers!!!