Brander Au Naturel Sauvignon Blanc 1998
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Vintage
1998
Size
750ML
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Skin-contact and free-run juice from the best selection of Sauvignon Blanc fruit from our vineyard yields this intensely flavored and aromatic wine. It resembles a cross between top quality Sancerre and the best examples of Collio. This wine never saw oak and was bottled approximately 8 months after harvest with some residual spritz as a result of lengthy sur-lie aging and only one racking.
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The planting of the Brander Vineyard to mainly Bordeaux varietals began in 1975. In 1977, the first harvest of Sauvignon Blanc grapes were taken to a neighboring winery where Fred Brander produced a wine so distinctive it captured Santa Barbara County's first gold medal for a wine at a major wine competition (1978 Los Angeles County Fair).Since its inception, the Brander vineyard has been highly acclaimed as a top Sauvignon Blanc producer, and for many years the only Brander wine was an estate-bottled Sauvignon Blanc. Today, the winery produces an average of 8,000 cases of wine from its 43 acres of vineyard in the Santa Ynez Valley. The focus on production is Sauvignon Blanc, with one main bottling and three distinctively different reserve bottlings of that variety. A small quantity of red wines is also produced with Merlot and our Bordeaux-blend called Bouchet being the most popular.
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