Bill Cates and Jeffery Fink

Tantara Winery

Friends for over twenty years, Jeffrey Fink, an architect and Bill Cates, were both orignally from Virginia. They converged in California on a mission: to transform noble fruit into world class wine and have a good time doing it.

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Domaine Rolet Vin de Paille 2002

Domaine Rolet

Terroir: The notion of terroir is immaterial for the Vin de Paille, only the harvest with caution and good maturity beautiful clusters often taken from old vines will put the dried grapes.

Livestock: Three months are needed to slow the drying so that the must reach the required level, it is a slow fermentation that begins then. It will end naturally when the wine will reach 15 to 16 ° alcohol retaining 60 to 100 grams of unprocessed sugar. Then followed two years of aging in barrels.

Service: Serve to 8 to 10 degrees.

Guard: 50 years and older.

The 2002 vintage: Belle amber color, it recognizes the presence of Poulsard. The wine clings to the glass of wine augurant good concentration.

In the nose: It dominates the confit, dried fruit, figs, apricots, quince.

In the mouth: a lot of concentration, a touch of vivacity, good persistence vin is the “peacock tail”.

Very beautiful expression of a great vintage, it will marvel as an aperitif, to accompany the foie gras, a dessert or only for fun.

Appellation: AOC coast of Jura Vin de Paille

Varietal: Poulsard 20%, 40% Chardonnay; Savagnin 40%.

Alcohol: 15 °

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