Winery Skagit CrestChuckanut White
White wine
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Details and technical informations about Winery Skagit Crest's Chuckanut White.
Discover the grape variety: Alvarelhao
Light, elegant reds with a clear ruby colour, soft tannins and an airy palate with preserved acidity, showing signature aromas of red fruits (cherry, raspberry), gentle spices and Iberian floral notes. Often blended in Douro reds, also contributing to lighter Port wines and Galician reds (DO Rías Baixas). Native black variety from the Douro and Trás-os-Montes in Portugal, also known as Brancellao in neighbouring Galicia.
Informations about the Winery Skagit Crest
The Winery Skagit Crest is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 8 wines for sale in the of Puget Sound to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Puget Sound
Washington State's only AVA west of the Cascades (~121 planted acres), temperate oceanic climate with warm dry summers, glacial sandy-gravelly soils. Pinot Noir signature as cool-climate red: elegant and silky with red cherry, raspberry, undergrowth and fine spices, fine tannins and freshness. Star Madeleine Angevine native white (early Loire cross, citrus, flowers), taut Riesling, aromatic Müller-Thurgau and Siegerrebe. Fresh maritime niche whites.
The wine region of Washington
2nd US producer by volume, on the arid, sunny Columbia Valley. Star Cabernet Sauvignon (~60% of reds): powerful and structured with signature notes of blackcurrant, blackberry, cedar, dry herbs and graphite, firm tannins. Fleshy, peppery Syrah (black fruits, smoked meat). Round, fruity Merlot, historic mineral Riesling (dry and off-dry), precise Chardonnay and ample Sémillon.
The word of the wine: Overmaturation
When the grapes reach maturity, the skin becomes permeable and progressively loses water, which causes a concentration phenomenon inside the berry. This is called over-ripening or passerillage.
