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2006 Panama White
2006 was an interesting year for white wines in Oregon. Some of the impact was less than positive and some of the impact was, well, unique. The Sauvignon Blanc in our Estate Vineyard is a 1990 planting on the steepest most westerly face of the hillside. While we do things differently with the canopy in the Sauvignon Blanc compared to the Pinot Noir we treat the fruit very similarly (cropping to about 2 tons/acre, culling of sub-standard clusters prior to harvest, sorting, etc.). When we purchased this site in 2000 the Sauvignon was still on an old-school trellising system that we had to re-do to bring it up to date. Combined with the other viticultural endeavors we have undertaken in the vineyard the results have really begun to show as of late. The 2006 Sauvignon Blanc from our site is a wholly unique wine. Rather than conditioning the wine in stainless steel we moved this wine into neutral French oak barrels to enhance the hedonistic texture this wine displays. This operates on the edge of Sauvignon Blanc-ness showing deep and intense flavors of white peach, white flowers, baking spice and wet stone. This is perhaps a once-in-a-winemaking-lifetime type of wine. This wines nature, name, label and bottle come from the odd combination of a Central American vacation, the love of Didier Dagueneaus wines and props to Manford Krankel. Exceedingly cool package. An admission should be made here in this day and age: While it in no way tastes like it has this sort of pop the alcohol of this wine is 16.3%. Nonetheless it is a beautifully if monstrously balanced wine. 304 6-packs bottled.