Winery Great BearThe Album White Blend
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The The Album White Blend of the Winery Great Bear is in the top 0 of wines of Yolo County.
Details and technical informations about Winery Great Bear's The Album White Blend.
Discover the grape variety: Subéreux
Simple, lively dry whites with a pale golden robe, an airy palate with preserved acidity. Understated aromas of citrus and white flowers. Disease-resistant. Now marginal, surviving in a few heritage French plots; one of the older hybrids preserved in varietal collections and a parent of Seyval Blanc. A French white hybrid obtained by Albert Seibel (Seibel 4938) in the early twentieth century.
Informations about the Winery Great Bear
The Winery Great Bear is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 11 wines for sale in the of Yolo County to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Yolo County
California county in the Sacramento Valley (4 sub-AVAs: Capay Valley, Dunnigan Hills, Clarksburg, Merritt Island): Chardonnay, Chenin Blanc and Petite Sirah are the signature kings — varied profile by AVA, Capay Valley rocky volcanic soils concentrating aromatics, Dunnigan Hills dry loams with excellent drainage forging modest yields. Tempranillo, Cabernet, Malbec, Grenache, Syrah, Sauvignon Blanc and Albariño as complements.
The wine region of California
Powerful, sunny reds: dense Napa Cabernet Sauvignon (blackcurrant, chocolate, tobacco, ample tannins), spicy, jammy Zinfandel from the Sierra Foothills, silky red-fruited Pinot Noir on the cool coast (Sonoma, Russian River, Central Coast). Opulent, buttery Chardonnay, notes of yellow fruit and vanilla. Varied climate, from the hot interior to the Pacific-cooled coast. 80% of US production, 139 AVAs including Napa (1st AVA, 1981).
The word of the wine: Anthocyanins
Phenolic compounds present in the skin of grapes that give colour to red wines during maceration.
