Wine

Item Description

You are bidding on 2 Bottles of 2015 J. Wilkes Chardonnay, 1 Bottle of 2017 Ballard Lane Zinfande Pllus a Tasting Certificate for Two.

Must be 21 or older.

Wine Notes:

2015 J. Wilkes Chardonnay - Granny Smith apple, wet chalk, toasty, savory French oak aromas, hint of browned butter, but the oak treatment is elegant enough to allow a lemon-blossom, floral character to emerge in the wine’s nose. Savory oak meets green-apple Jolly Ranchers with persistent apple and tropical fruit through the finish. Well integrated (wood and fruit) for such a young wine and offers a lot of subtle and delicious flavors early in its life. There’s a lot to love here-bright and rich, savory and nervey, balanced and delicious. Glasses empty quickly.

FOOD PAIRING
This wine is begging for some seafood poached in butter or presented with a Beurre Blanc sauce: sand dabs, sea bass, black cod. Hints of tropicality in the wine lend themselves to ideas of bacon wrapped shrimp with mango salsa, or traditional matches like Brie or Tomme-style cheeses.

2017 Ballard Lane Zinfandel - Ballard Lane Zinfandel delivers a sense of place and a great expression of the Central Coast. The vineyards produced a medium bodied wine with integrated silky tannins that is aromatically fruit  driven as well as on the palate. Flavors and aromatics of cherry, strawberry jam and raspberry with a hint of cracked black pepper.

The fruit was picked before dawn and then cold soaked for two days before fermenting with D254 yeast in order to ensure a fruit forward wine and promote smooth tannins. Fermentation had extended extraction before undergoing malolactic fermentation. Aged on French and American medium toast oak for 6 months.

About Miller Family Wines
Five Generations of California Farming - A Family of Winegrowers
The Miller family’s California farming and ranching legacy dates to back to 1871, when William and Francis Broome moved from England to the West Coast of California and began farming in southern Ventura County.

The farming legacy passed down to William Broome’s granddaughter Elizabeth, and following her marriage to Robert Miller in 1942, the Miller Family became the steward of the farming business.

In 1973, the Miller family developed a vineyard in the Paso Robles highlands and named it French Camp for the Basque shepherds who once populated the area. The area had a special allure thanks to the largest day/night temperature swings, mineral rich soils and highest elevations in the regions.

The 1400 acres of French Camp provide the Miller Family with the highest quality fruit sources that help to create the highest quality wines.

More at: https://www.millerfamilywines.com

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