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Inglenook, Blancaneaux 2017
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Reviewed by: Lisa Perrotti-Brown
The already bottled 2017 Blancaneaux is a blend of 44% Roussanne, 30% Viognier and 26% Marsanne. It features notions of baked pears, waxy lemons and warm white peaches with touches of allspice and fennel seed in the background. The medium-bodied palate offers a lovely suggestion of oiliness to the texture with a lively backbone and long spicy finish. 704 cases produced.
About the Producer
Inglenook's Chateau winery is completed. Conceived to be a state-of-the-art facility, the Chateau's design is based on gravity-flow, one of the first of its type in Napa Valley, and includes an early form of rebar—using cable from cable-cars in San Francisco—to stave off earthquake tremors and to help the building shift safely during the crush process. True to his fastidious nature in each step of the winemaking process, Niebaum devises California's first grape-sorting table and also installs the state's first bottling line to ensure the wines' provenance from growth to bottle, the latter always bearing the California Pure Wine Stamp and secured with an intricate wire maze to guarantee the wine's integrity.
