On Presidents Day weekend, Anderson Valley Winegrowers are hosting our annual Winter White Wine Festival making it a great time to visit Anderson Valley. Navarro will be pouring over a dozen Gold Medal-winning wines. Navarro specializes in wines produced from the grapes of Northern Europe, and we are offering a sampler of six dry table wines produced from Philo-grown Gewürztraminer, Pinot Gris, Riesling, Grüner Veltliner grapes as well as Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. We follow traditional winemaking regimes, by fermenting and ageing these varieties sur lie in seasoned oak ovals and barrels which add subtle savory aromas and flavors with a suave, creamy mouthfeel.
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Marcus and Franz removing the spent yeasts from an oak oval seven to eight months after we filled it with juice to ferment. Aging a wine on the yeasts that transformed grape juice into wine, enriches the wine. The spent yeasts slowly break down releasing a range of compounds that affect aroma, flavor and texture.
