2011 | Morlet Family Vineyards | La Proportion Doree

This remarkable, honeyed white offers hints of citrus oil, candle wax, tangerine skin and oranges. A wine of great intensity, texture and body, it is a dry, complex white that spent ten months in French oak.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The most distinctive and unique is the 2011 Semillon/Sauvignon Blanc La Proportion Doree, a blend of 65% Semillon and 35% Sauvignon Blanc. The Semillon comes from a Dry Creek vineyard planted in 1953 in loamy and gravelly soils. The Sauvignon Blanc is from Alexander Valley. Morlet's reference point would appear to be the white wine made at Laville Haut-Brion and Haut-Brion. This remarkable, honeyed white offers hints of citrus oil, candle wax, tangerine skin and oranges. A wine of great intensity, texture and body, it is a dry, complex white that spent ten months in French oak. It should keep for a decade, although I doubt if purchasers will be able to keep their hands off of it for that long.

• Wine Cellar: Fascinating, soil-driven aromas of citrus peel, silex, botanical herbs, licorice, minerals, bees wax and juniper, plus a whiff of oyster shell. Rich, tactile and dry, boasting outstanding density of texture with any phenolic roughness. Slightly edgy flavors of citrus zest and salty minerality build inexorably on the long finish, which also features a whiff of gooseberry. This is always among the handful of transcendent Semillon/Sauvignon blends being made in California today--wonderfully rich and layered wines that can easily hold their own against the dry whites from Bordeaux.

Producer Information

Morlet Family Vineyards is a wine producer located in St. Helena, California. It produces a range of single-vineyard wines from Napa Valley and Sonoma County, from the area's key grape varieties Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Syrah. The estate was founded by Jodie and Luc Morlet, whose family owns Pierre Morlet & Fils in Champagne, France. The estate consists of vineyards in Oakville, St. Helena, and Knights Valley, and has long-terrm contracts with vineyards in Fort Ross-Seaview, Russian River Valley, Bennett Valley, Dry Creek and Napa Valley. Each site is planted to the grape varieties that respond best to the individual terroir. Morlet's approach to winemaking is minimalist and Old World in style, using classical techniques from Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne. The grapes are picked by hand, then destemmed and double-sorted when they reach the St. Helena winery. Native yeasts carry out the fermentation process, and wines are aged in French oak barrels before release. Morlet Family Vineyard's wines are sold through mailing list and in high-profile restaurants around the world. Top-rated wines from the estate include the white Bordeaux-style blend La Proportion Dorée, the Bouquet Garni Syrah, the Coeur de Vallée Cabernet Sauvignon. There are also multiple expressions of Pinot Noir from the Fort Ross-Seaview AVA.

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