• Soliste Saint Andelain Sauvignon Blanc 2016
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Soliste Saint Andelain Sauvignon Blanc 2016

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A warm inland area just north of Napa Valley, Lake County represents a new frontier for California winemaking. While Prohibition halted viticulture here just as it did in so many California regions, winemaking activity remained fairly insignificant for a few decades longer than others. Finally in the 1990s Lake County Sauvignon blanc—uniquely savory and fruity—earned the appellation a renewed reputation.

Notes from the Winemaker

Vineyard 
St Andelain comes from a vineyard adjacent to the shores of Clear Lake, just southeast of Lakeport. 20-year-old vines on a mix of alluvial and volcanic soils rich in minerality are organically farmed. 

Keeping The Dream Alive 
St Andelain is our homage to the incomparable late Didier Dagueneau. He single 
handedly revolutionized Sauvignon Blanc, bringing it to Grand Cru status as any 
great white Burgundy. An iconoclast among vignerons and sommeliers, he was 
infatuated with great Burgundies and used methods uncommon to Pouilly-Fumé, 
including severe pruning for drastically low yields, hand-harvesting of fruit over 
several successive passes (tris) through the vineyards, vineyard designate bottling, 
skin contact, and barrel-fermentation. He also created his own barrels, the most 
famous being a cigar shape barrel we have adopted at Soliste to craft St Andelain. 

Tasting Notes 
Superbly crystalline, elegant pale golden tones faded into minerality that sparkles, 
expressing a wine of great verve and leanness. Aromas of marine oyster shells, sea 
weed and fleur de sel, with secondary layers of elderflowers, passion fruit, and kefir 
lime – Reminding Claude of the winter cold ocean spray in Brittany over the oyster 
beds. On the palate, very refined and elegant; classic oyster shell laced with lean 
lime notes, green pineapple rind, gooseberry, and white currants. The middle 
palate is all about a seductive yet firm texture – the brightness of the fruit takes 
hold in the mouth, incrementally building and expanding from cheek to cheek with 
layers of green tea, sea brine, baked apple, cream of sweet white corn, and hay. As 
with our Lune et Soleil, the high pitch acidy creates a razor sharp

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Soliste Saint Andelain Sauvignon Blanc 2016