Wine Education - Viognier

Wine Tasting at all FOUR locations

Taste a few wines made from Viognier at all four of our locations this Saturday, June 1 from 11am-4pm.

 (each store will also have other wines out to taste)

A little more education: We are going to try to feature either a grape or a wine region each week at our stores. We will give you some background information on the grape or region and feature a wine that highlights what we are featuring. We will taste that wine on Saturday at all four of our locations. We will post it here in our blog and send it out in our emails - click here to sign up for our emails

I have started a new label "Education" that you can hit to read all the education articles (see the right column under the heading "labels".

Grape: Viognier

image from Wikipedia

Grape: Viognier

Making it’s historical home in the Northern end of France’s Rhone River Valley , specifically the appellations of Condrieu and Cote Rotie, the finicky Viognier grape produces wines with great aromatics and intense flavors. Though difficult to grow and relatively small yielding Viognier has experienced quite a resurgence in world wide popularity over the last half century. As late as 1960 just 40 acres of Viognier vines were planted in the entire world in fact it took the interest of Australia’s Yalumba winery to breathe life back into this almost extinct varietal. Now Viognier is grown the world over and has a style and price point to match almost any taste.

Come taste at all four locations:

Peyna Viognier:

Offers an exotic nose of citrus, pineapple, mango and peach, with light floral notes. Light, lively and very refreshing on the palate.

Each store will have other wines to taste: At Forsyth, we will also taste these.

Yalumba Viognier
Domaine St Amant Viognier