Treana 2015 White Blend, Central Coast

The Hope family helped pioneer the now-thriving category of California white Rhône blends over the past 18 vintages. The majority of the fruit in this blend is from the Santa Lucia Highlands, which benefits from the cooling breezes coming off of Monterey Bay (73% Santa Lucia Highlands 15% San Benito County 12% Paso Robles). A blend of 45% Viognier, 45% Marsanne and 10% Roussanne, the grapes for the 2015 Treana Blanc were whole-cluster pressed and the juice was chilled to 35˚ F to allow the solids to settle. Once cooled, 80% of the juice was transferred to French oak barrels for fermentation, of which 25% were new barrels. The remaining 20% of the juice was fermented and aged in stainless steel tanks and then blended with the barrel-aged wine. The blend aged together for another four months until bottling.

Treana Blanc is a stunning example of a new world Rhone blend with aromas and flavors of pineapple, dried apricot, peach and Clementine orange that combine with floral notes of honeysuckle and elderflower. Sweet notes of marzipan, honey, graham cracker along with cinnamon and vanilla round out this complex, full-bodied and racy wine.