Your Ideal Holiday Wine Line-Up

Photo by Fran Miller

With the holidays conscionable astir the corner, it’s clip to commencement reasoning astir celebratory meals and the libations that travel such. As assorted household and friends are definite to gather, each with antithetic beverage interests, present is an perfect vino line-up (wine-up?) definite to delight immoderate palate. From your vino geek uncle to your chardonnay-adoring mother-in-law, each of your guests volition find thing to emotion wrong this fabulous foursome.  

Stonestreet Blanc de Blancs. Photo by Fran Miller

Start the Evening with a Pop. Stonestreet 2014 Blanc de Blancs ($50) from Sonoma County’s Alexander Valley is the cleanable mode to stock a welcoming ‘cheers’ with your guests. This vessel is definite to impressment and volition assistance get the vacation enactment started with a bang (or a pop). 100% Chardonnay, and made successful the ‘methode traditionalle,’ this beauteous sparkler features tons of greenish pome goodness and razor crisp acerb with notes of brioche. 

Stonestreet 2018 Estate Chardonnay. Photo courtesy of Stonestreet

A Chardonnay Fit For All Holiday Fare. Stonestreet 2018 Estate Chardonnay ($45), besides from Alexander Valley,  provides the versatility to travel immoderate meal. This upland look of Chardonnay is blended with delicate precision, providing a equilibrium of aromatic intrigue, texture, and structure. It displays notes of caramel pome and pineapple-upside-down barroom paired with a subtle salinity. The affluent and circular palate is highlighted by the caller tropical fruits and salted caramel. The absorption and backbone of caller acidity spell large with greenish legume casserole, gravy-laden mashed potatoes, herb roasted turkey, oregon chromatic ham. 

Gran Moraine 2019 Pinot Noir. Photo courtesy of Gran Moraine

A Perfect Pinot. Gran Moraine 2019 Pinot Noir ($50) from the Yamhill-Carlton sub-AVA in Willamette, Oregon is an perfect reddish accompaniment to rich, earthy foods similar rib roast and Brussels sprouts. But it goes arsenic good with turkey and mashed potatoes. With aromas of soy, lilac, tamarind, Earl-grey tea, and humor orange, and flavors of tangerine, pomegranate, sassafras, saffron, tube tobacco, spruce tips, and Himalayan blackberry, this multi-layered vino volition delight each the reddish lovers successful your crew. 

Mt. Brave 2019 Cabernet Franc. Photo courtesy of Mt. Brave

Something a Little Different. Mt. Brave 2019 Cabernet Franc ($95) from Mt. Veeder successful Napa Valley, California is simply a connection vino – bold capable to clasp its ain against immoderate vacation roast oregon buttery broadside dish, and definite to impressment with its elegance and aromas of mulberry, Asian spice, achromatic tea, and graphite. Cabernet Franc has been good-humoredly dubbed the “little sister oregon brother” to Cabernet Sauvignon, but determination is thing diminutive astir this wine. Loaded with dense effect and spice connected the palate, it is full-bodied with beautifully balanced acidity and ripe, uber-fine tannins.