Winery Mira Laguna VineyardDrift Sangiovese
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The Drift Sangiovese of the Winery Mira Laguna Vineyard is in the top 0 of wines of Los Olivos.
Details and technical informations about Winery Mira Laguna Vineyard's Drift Sangiovese.
Discover the grape variety: Crescent
A direct-producer hybrid of American origin resulting from an interspecific cross between Saint Pepin and Elmer Swenson 6-8-25 (vitis riparia X Hamburg muscatel) obtained in 1988 by Peter Hemstad and James Luby at the University of Minnesota Research Center (United States). It can also be found in Canada, Ukraine, Russia, etc. and is virtually unknown in France.
Informations about the Winery Mira Laguna Vineyard
The Winery Mira Laguna Vineyard is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 5 wines for sale in the of Los Olivos to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Los Olivos
The wine region of Los Olivos is located in the region of Santa Ynez Valley of California of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Brander or the Domaine Brander produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Los Olivos are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Sangiovese and Merlot, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Los Olivos often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of earth, microbio or tree fruit.
The wine region of California
California is the largest and most important wine region in the United States. It represents the southern two-thirds (850 miles or 1,370 kilometers) of the country's west coast. (Oregon and Washington make up the rest. ) The state also spans nearly 10 degrees of latitude.
The word of the wine: Chaptalization
The addition of sugar at the time of fermentation of the must, an ancient practice, but theorized by Jean-Antoine Chaptal at the dawn of the 19th century. The sugar is transformed into alcohol and allows the natural degree of the wine to be raised in a weak or cold year, or - more questionably - when the winegrower has a harvest that is too large to obtain good maturity.
